Dubrovnik Aquarium and Maritime Museum

Frommer's Review

For a change of pace, follow the street opposite the cathedral's main door past several down-in-the-mouth side streets to St. John's Fortress and the aquarium and maritime museum. Instead of jumping into the sea, you can step back and take a close look at the ocean. Located in Tvrdava Sv. Ivana (St. John's Fortress) next to the old port, the Dubrovnik Aquarium has a large array of indigenous fish and ocean dwellers on display in its 27 tanks. Stingrays, conger eels, scorpion fish, and spotted dogfish are alongside spiny lobster, grouper, and other specimens from the deep. There are also delightful displays of colorful sea anemones, corals, shells, sea urchins, and sea horses. The tanks are fed by a constant stream of fresh sea water. The maritime museum has charts, documents, boat models, and artifacts related to Ragusa's sea industry.

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