Melbourne Aquarium is located in the city center on the banks of the Yarra River. The building is designed as a ship moored at the quay of the river. Opened in 2000, today this aquarium is considered one of the best in the world. Here extensive collection of inhabitants of the southern seas and around the Antarctic region, and regularly hosts exhibitions of the underwater world of the Great Barrier Reef.

In the aquarium you can see the royal and sub-Antarctic penguins, imported from New Zealand, various species of fish and marine mammals, scorpions and tarantulas living in deep caves. To play the natural conditions of exposure include real snow and ice. In addition, the exhibition entitled "Southern Ocean" introduces the life of a coral atoll, mangroves, flora and fauna, estuaries and the inhabitants of underground caves.

But, of course, one of the main inhabitants of the aquarium - huge gray nurse sharks and rare Flathead grebnezubye sharks living in the world's first fishbowl of 2, 2 million liters. It is designed in such a way that the spectators themselves become the object of observing marine life swimming around them.

Melbourne Aquarium participates in environmental programs, such as programs to increase the number of nurse sharks, which have almost disappeared from the waters of Victoria, and in the program to restore populations of giant sea turtles. The last grown in the aquarium, and then released into the wild in the warm waters of Queensland.