Sea Life Kansas City, Public aquarium at Crown Center Square in Kansas City, United States.
Sea Life Kansas City is an interactive aquarium at the Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri, owned and operated by Merlin Entertainments. It holds thousands of aquatic creatures, touch pools where visitors can handle animals, and a 360° ocean tunnel that lets visitors walk beneath the water.
Sea Life Kansas City is owned and operated by Merlin Entertainments, the British attractions group behind the Sea Life chain, and it opened at Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri. The site places a commercial aquarium in an inland city, with the conservation programmes of the wider Sea Life network, such as seahorse breeding and seal rescue, presented as part of its remit.
Sea Life Kansas City is run by Merlin Entertainments and takes part in Sea Life's conservation work: it has bred and reared nine seahorse species, so none are taken from the wild for its displays. It also works with seal sanctuaries, helping rescue and return over 100 seal pups to the wild each year, and gives permanent homes to injured or disabled aquatic creatures.
Sea Life Kansas City sits inside Crown Center at 2450 Grand Boulevard, a short drive from downtown Kansas City and Interstate 35. The aquarium is indoors, so the visit is unaffected by weather, and the route through the exhibits is self-guided. Allow roughly one to two hours to see the tanks, touch pools and the ocean tunnel.
The ocean tunnel at Sea Life Kansas City curves a full 360 degrees, so visitors pass beneath sharks and schools of fish and come out facing the same direction they entered. The aquarium is owned and operated by Merlin Entertainments and sits inside the Crown Center complex.
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