Nauticus

One Waterside Drive

Norfolk, Virginia 23510

757-664-1058

https://nauticus.org/

Two (2) Admission Tickets

Expires 4/2023

Nauticus is a maritime-themed science center and museum located on the downtown waterfront in Norfolk, Virginia, also known as the National Maritime Center.

The museum features hands-on exhibits, interactive theaters, aquaria, digital high-definition films, and an extensive variety of educational programs. Nauticus has a high-definition large-screen theater and shows several nautically-related films on a rotating basis.

The second floor of Nauticus houses the Hampton Roads Naval Museum and the entrance to the battleship Wisconsin. On the third floor of Nauticus, guests can view a variety of science and maritime exhibits, including aquaria, a horseshoe crab touch tank, shark lab, Science On a Sphere, NOAA exhibits, interactive theaters, and a weather station. The shark lab of Nauticus is home to four sharks of three different species. There is one male epaulet shark, two male white-spotted bamboo sharks, and one female brown-banded bamboo shark. In the Fall of 2016, there was also a male brown-banded bamboo shark, but it was relocated to a closed tank near the entrance due to aggressiveness.