Smithsonian Ocean Hall opens September 27, 2008

Written by on September 1, 2008. Posted in DC News, General

Artist's rendition of a coral reef tank

Opening September 27, 2008, the Smithsonian’s Ocean Hall, developed in partnership with NOAA, is the largest permanent exhibit ever created in the world’s most visited natural history museum. Among the many notable exhibits will be:

A 50-foot, life-sized replica of Phoenix, an endangered North Atlantic right whale living today
20-foot male and 36-foot female specimens of the elusive giant squid
The six-foot Science On a Sphere®, which displays the Earth as viewed from 22,000 miles in space and shows moving satellite images
A 1:100 scale model of the world’s largest ocean drilling ship, the Chikyu

For the latest on Ocean Hall, see http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/ocean_hall.