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Aquarium et Musée de Zoologie (Aquarium and Zoological Museum) Frommer's Highly Recommended

Quai Van Beneden 22, Liege

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Hours Sept-June (except Easter school vacation) Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun and holidays 10:30am-6pm; Easter school vacation and July-Aug Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat-Sun and holidays 10:30am-6pm
Location Beside the Meuse at Pont Kennedy,
Phone 04/366-50-21
Web site www.aquarium-museum.ulg.ac.be
Prices Admission 5€ ($8) adults; 4.20€ ($6.70) seniors, students, and children 13-18; 3.50€ ($5.60) children 6-12; free for children 5 and under
Closed Closed Jan 1, Dec 24-25 and 31

Review of Aquarium et Musée de Zoologie (Aquarium and Zoological Museum)

Though owned by the University of Liège and housed in the university's neoclassical Zoological Institute, the Aquarium isn't a dry academic institution. Attractively presented underwater displays bring together 2,500 examples from 250 marine species. The exhibits cover a lot of ground -- or water -- in their 46 display tanks. Pride of place, for most younger visitors at any rate, goes to the 4,420-gallon shark tank. The Salle des Coraux (Coral Room) contains beautiful specimens collected from Australia's Great Barrier Reef by a university expedition in 1966 to 1967.

The ragged-looking Zoological Museum on the same premises has some 20,000 exhibits, including the skeleton of a 19m (62-ft.) whale. In its foyer is the mural La Genèse (Genesis; 1960) by Belgian artist Paul Delvaux, which depicts a kind of Garden of Eden scene, with smoke from volcanoes staining the skies of Creation.

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