Get up close and personal to one of our animals! 

Kids and adults alike will enjoy learning fun animal facts and all about how they can help to protect natural environments.

The National Aquarium is proud to partner with Enoch Pratt Free Library on Read to Reef, a joint reading incentive program that provides Baltimore families with meaningful learning opportunities within their local communities and through free Aquarium admission. Whether it’s through summer programs at local library branches, special guest authors at Baltimore Book Festival, or our semiannual children’s book club, the Pratt Library and the National Aquarium are connecting thousands of Baltimore youth to the aquatic world through reading, inspiring a new generation to care for our oceans and the creatures that inhabit them.