Sitka Sights

Sheldon Jackson Aquarium

#9 of 53 things to do in Sitka

#45 of 350 things to do in Southeast Alaska

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  • Address
    • 801 Lincoln St College Area Sage Bldg
  • Phone
    • tel, info: 907 747 5220
  • Price
    • admission by donation
  • Hours
    • 08:30-16:00

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Lonely Planet review for Sheldon Jackson Aquarium

Housed in the Sage Building is the Sheldon Jackson Aquarium, a classroom during the school year but Sitka's top attraction for children during the summer. The aquarium features an 800-gallon 'Wall of Water' filled with sea anemones, rockfish and starfish and three touch tanks where kids can feel the spiny skin of a huge starfish or the coarse shell of an abalone.

It is also home of the country's only on-site, college-run hatchery, an especially impressive sight when thousands of king, coho, pink and chum salmon boil the water during feeding.

 

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