Aquarium San Sebastián
Beaux-arts sea palace pairing a naval history museum with tanks of Cantabrian marine life and a shark-filled underwater tunnel.
This guide to the Aquarium San Sebastián starts beneath a twelve-meter right whale skeleton harpooned by Basque whalers in the 1870s, hanging in a hall built as the Palacio del Mar. You'll hear how Prince Albert the First of Monaco's 1903 visit sparked the founding of a local oceanography society, and how King Alfonso the Thirteenth and Queen Victoria Eugenia opened Spain's first natural sciences museum here in 1928. It traces the decades when ship models and navigation instruments shared this building with tanks of live Cantabrian Sea fish. Look up at the whale as you start, it ties the whole story together.
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