MAINE AQUARIUM

The following is information about the Maine Aquarium when it was located off Route 1 in Saco, Maine:

The Maine Aquarium provided educational programs to over a quarter million students during their visit to the Maine Aquarium on scheduled school field trips with their teachers.

There were over 1.5 million other satisfied people who visited the Maine Aquarium during regular museum hours.

The Maine Aquarium provided many worthwhile services at the former Maine Aquarium site and all at NO ADDITIONAL TAX INCREASES TO THE RESIDENTS OF MAINE. A few of those services were:

1) continuous educational programs for adults as well as for children;

2) educational programs provided for continuing educational credits for re-certification of Maine teachers ;

3) rescuing of stranded seals on Maine's beaches;

4) outreach programs into area nursing homes;

5) on site on-the-job training provided to individuals from various organizations;

6) on site on-the-job training provided to college students for approved college credits;
7) research projects on various experimental methods and procedures for treatment of illnesses of certain ill inhabitants and adopted, rescued animals;
8) adopted various rescued injured animals, as well as, animals confiscated by State officials from sources not eligible to possess such animals;

9) kept the Maine Aquarium open on a 7 day / per week basis, 52 weeks per year (not just during the summer tourist months) for nearly 13 years ... non-stop;

10) all the above at no costs to the taxpayers.

Now we are moving forward with building a new public aquarium in Biddeford, Maine having direct frontage on U.S. Route 1 for convenient accessibility, frontage on the Saco River which has its origins in the White Mountains, and, will be at least twice the size of the Maine Aquarium when it was at its former location in Saco, plus, there will be ample room for expansion.

Note:

This web site is virtually displaying the same information that was displayed on the world wide web when the Maine Aquarium ended operations in 1997 at its former location in Saco.

PLEASE LET US KNOW YOUR VIEWS BY WRITING TO US AT: director@maineaquarium.org.

Thank you.

Maine Aquarium Management