Events

Celebrate the world’s one big ocean with us and learn to be an ocean hero! Everyone, no matter where they live, can help keep the ocean clean and healthy. We'll show you how with a variety of hands-on activities and special demonstrations.

Celebrate dads of all types—animal and human. Join us for talks, enrichments and fun activities.

Learn about orcas with hands-on activities all weekend. Check out our 20-foot-long, inflatable orca, modeled after Granny—matriarch of the endangered southern resident population, and believed to have been the oldest known orca. Plus, find out how ocean debris impacts these whales, and why healthy salmon populations are so important to their survival.

Join biologists at the Seattle Aquarium and explore the lives of sea otters. See how the Seattle Aquarium biologists care for these enchanting animals, including providing great nutrition, training and even toys!

Calling all divers! Help collect data on a Puget Sound icon! If you go diving anytime during October 5-13, we’d like to know whether or not you see any giant Pacific octopuses.

Creepy games and activities, face painting, fun treats and two kinds of pumpkin carving demonstrations—on land with master carver Russ Leno and underwater with our Aquarium divers.

We invite researchers, educators, conservation advocates, and leaders interested in exploring the role of empathy in influencing attitudes, behaviors and intentions toward conservation to join the Seattle Aquarium for the inaugural Developing Empathy for Conservation Outcomes (DECO) conference.