Thursday, June 11, 2015

Aquarium of Niagara celebrates 50 years as it looks toward accreditation


Attraction is looking to renovate and expand

Michele Paterson interacts with one of the Humboldt penguins in the penguin colony, which the aquarium hopes to renovate later this year.
Michele Paterson interacts with one of the Humboldt penguins in the penguin colony, which the aquarium hopes to renovate later this year. Derek Gee/Buffalo News

on June 11, 2015

NIAGARA FALLS – In the mid-1960s, a group of scientists was looking to create synthetic seawater.
They wanted to make it easier to set up aquariums that could be located inland, so facilities didn’t need to haul salt water from the coast.

Those young scientists wound up in Niagara Falls, creating what became the Aquarium of Niagara, and finished a formula for synthetic seawater that’s used around the world today.
That’s a main part of the origin of the Aquarium of Niagara, the Niagara Falls attraction that will mark its 50th anniversary with a ceremony at 1 p.m. Friday, 50 years to the day since the facility’s original ribbon-cutting.



“We love when people come in and we can see smiles on kids’ faces and just go down memory lane,” she said.

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