November 22, 2025
November 22, 2025 —
The Living Seas Gallery invites ocean enthusiasts to experience an immersive journey through 38 habitats, uncovering the wonders of the Pacific, including the aquarium’s rescued female loggerhead sea turtle, the hidden world of the giant Pacific octopus, the biodiversity of a coral reef, and more.
May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025 —
With a ceremonial “kelp cutting,” Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego officially unveiled its newest exhibition — now named Adam R. Scripps Living Seas Gallery — in recognition of a generous gift from The Adam R. Scripps Foundation.
August 22, 2024
August 22, 2024 —
La Jolla, CA (August 21, 2024)—Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego today announced Living Seas, a reimagined exhibition that will replace the aquarium’s famed Hall of Fishes next summer. The exhibition, the largest capital improvement since the aquarium was built in 1992, invites guests to journey through the Pacific Ocean in order to inspire a love of nature, a sense of place and ocean optimism.
