Maretarium 20 years
This year, Maretarium celebrates its 20th anniversary. In twenty years, about 875,000 visitors have visited the aquarium tour. The actual birthday day is May 1st. The theme of the jubilee year is the diversity of aquatic nature. Maretarium encourages its visitors to work for a more diverse aquatic nature in its exhibition, tips for actions […]
Interior work underway in the Baltic Sea tank
The renovation of Maretarium’s Baltic Sea tank is now progressing with the interior of the tank. There will be stone imitations and a wreck structure in the tank – after all, the sea area off Kotka, from which the water from the Maretarium aquarium tanks is taken, a significant graveyard of wrecks. The interior design […]
Maretarium is closed during 20.1.-2.2.2022
Because of the bad covid-situation in Kymenlaakso area, also Maretarium has to be closed during 20.1.-2.2.2022.
Teemu Lakka, In Cold Waters – exhibition of unique Finnish underwater photos at Maretarium 8.6.-31.10.2021
Maretarium’s special exhibition will feature unique images of Finnish nature below the surface, including those moments when the water begins to freeze. Teemu Lakka (d.b. 1980 in Anjalankoski) has been working at Maretarium as aquarist-diver since spring 2019. Lakka started underwater photography in 2009. The enthusiasm for filming came from the fact that the verbal […]
The theme for 2021 is the fight against the climate change
At Maretarium, the theme for 2021 is the fight against the climate change. The City of Kotka is aiming with the so-called “Hinku commitment” to carbon neutrality by 2030. Maretarium’s exhibition discusses the measures of the Kotka climate programme and asks visitors what everyone considers to be the most important action in the fight against […]