Escape Winter's Chill at the New England Aquarium

Spend February School Vacation with sharks, rays, fur seals, penguins, and other marine animals.

Take aquick and easy trip to visit the tropical sea creatures and arctic animals livingat the New England Aquarium over February School Vacation Week. Our new and wildly popular Trust Family Foundation Shark and Ray Touch Tank is the largest touch tank on the East Coast. It’s a 25,000-gallon touch tank where visitors can have a “feeling frenzy” by touchingmore than 80 rays and small sharks of more than 10 species swimming in a mangrove lagoon exhibit.

Visitors can also experience daily penguin feedings and presentations by the Aquarium’s harbor seals and northern fur seals as well as watch divers feed the Aquarium’s most famous resident,Myrtle the Turtle, a 560-pound green sea turtle, large sharks, and the 800 other fish and marine animals who roam the Aquarium’s Giant Ocean Tank.

Currently playing at the Aquarium’s Simons IMAX Theater- New England’s largest screen–are the films: “Born to Be Wild 3D,” “Under the Sea 3D,” “Deep Sea 3D,” and “Sharks 3D.”