About Aquarium

Tickets

The tickets may be bought:

at the ticket office before entering the Aquarium (ticket offices close half an hour before closing the exhibition. Payments can be made by card or in cash).
at sklep.akwarium.gdynia.pl. If tickets are no longer available in the online shop for the selected day, they can still be purchased on the spot at the cash desk.
Gdynia Aquarium does not make reservations for tickets.

Standard tickets

Type of ticket	1.05 -31.08	1.09 – 30.04
Regular	45 zł	40 zł
Discount children from the 5th birthday, pupils and university students under 26, pensioners	32 zł	28 zł
Persons with disabilities	22 zł	20 zł

Free of charge tickets are granted to children until the 5th birthday.

Verification of the right to discounted admission takes place before entering the exhibition.

Family tickets

The offer for families with children from 5 to 18 years old.

Children until the 5th birthday are entitled to free admission (free admission card is to be collected at the ticket office).

Family tickets	1.05 -31.08	1.09 – 30.04
2 adults + 1 child	112 zł	100 zł
2 adults + 2 children	134 zł	120 zł
2 adults + 3 children	156 zł	140 zł
2+4 and more	When calculating the cost of the ticket, the price of the 2 + 3 family ticket (PLN 156) should be supplemented with PLN 22 for each additional child.	When calculating the cost of the ticket, the price of a 2 + 3 family ticket (PLN 140) should be supplemented with the amount of PLN 20 for each additional child.

For more children, the cost of appropriate discount ticket should be included in calculation of the family ticket.

Group tickets

“A group” is defined as a number of people participating in a trip organized by schools, educational institutions, tourist offices, employers, organizations etc., that is considered as one subject by the service provider.

Group tickets	1.05 -31.08	1.09 – 30.04
Regular	45 PLN per person	40 PLN per person
Discount	32 PLN per person	28 PLN per person
Disabled	22 PLN per person	20 PLN per person

Admission is free for each chaperone per 10 group members.
Additionally, in the period May – June, organized groups (over 15 people) are entitled to a 10% discount, and from September to April a 20% discount.

Annual Personal Ticket – 120 zł

Authorizes to any number of free admissions to the Gdynia Aquarium and is valid for 365 days, counting from the day of purchase at the Gdynia Aquarium ticket office.
In order to use the Annual Ticket, each time a free admission card is to be collected at the ticket office of the Gdynia Aquarium with an Annual Ticket with a photo ID.

Free Admission Card

A free admission card is collected at the ticket office, upon presentation of a document entitling to free entry.
Free admission is granted to:

Children until the 5th birthday,
Group chaperones, when one chaperone is in charge of 10 people,
Guardians of persons with disabilities,
Zoo workers,
PTTK guides,
PTTK leaders,
Persons using occasional free admission.

Educational classes

Please note: participation in the classes requires prior reservation.
e-mail: akwarium.edukacja@mir.gdynia.pl
tel: +48 605 082 626

Special offers

Gdynia Aquarium’s Friend Card

Gdynia Aquarium’s Friend Card receives a person who will make a one-time purchase of admission tickets at the Gdynia Aquarium ticket office for a minimum of 150 zł. The card entitles you to a 10% discount on the purchase of each subsequent admission ticket to the Gdynia Aquarium. The discount is valid for one year. The offer does not apply to groups.

Additional discounts from May to Junef

10% discount for all organized groups (over 15 people)

Free entrance with Pomorskie Tourist Card

Are you going to Tricity? Pack the Pomorskie Tourist Card and enjoy exploring freely. With the Pomorskie Tourist Card in your pocket and packages for Gdynia, Discover Tri-city, and Adventure with Pomerania, you’ll gain free entry to 21 attractions throughout Tricity and its surroundings, including museums, Sopot pier, and the Gdynia Aquarium. No need to buy multiple tickets – and you’ll save over 50% on the cost of purchasing individual tickets.

Thanks to the Adventure with Pomerania and Gdynia Package Tourist Cards, you’ll receive a free admission ticket to the Gdynia Aquarium and other facilities.

More information about the Tourist Card.

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How to get here?

Akwarium Gdyńskie
Morski Instytut Rybacki – PIB
al. Jana Pawła II 1
81-345 Gdynia

By car

Gdynia Aquarium is situated at the end of al. John Paul II.

Public transport

To find the most convenient and fastest way to reach Gdynia Aquarium by means of public transport, we recommend to use the jakdojade.pl/trojmiasto/ website. The nearest trolleybus stop to the Aquarium is “Przystań Żeglugi 02”.

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Electronic guides

Zachęcamy do korzystania z elektronicznego systemu oprowadzania gości w Akwarium Gdyńskim, czyli naszych elektronicznych przewodników. Tzw. eGuide’a można wypożyczyć na I piętrze Akwarium Gdyńskiego, w godzinach otwarcia Akwarium Gdyńskiego.

eGuide to multimedialny przewodnik, który dostarcza szczegółowych informacji na temat naszych zwierząt. Przygotowaliśmy ścieżki zarówno dla dorosłych użytkowników, którzy mogą posłuchać m.in. głosu Krystyny Czubówny, jak i dla najmłodszych, dla których ścieżka jest sformułowana w postaci bajek, z zadaniami aktywizującymi małego słuchacza. Przewodnika można posłuchać w trzech językach: polskim, angielskim oraz niemieckim.

Dostępność urządzeń jest ograniczona. W przypadku grup wymagana jest wcześniejsza rezerwacja. Zobacz regulamin korzystania z przewodnika eGuide.

REZERWACJA: 605 082 626

KOSZT : 2 zł (za wypożyczenie jednego urządzenia na czas zwiedzania)

Elektroniczny system oprowadzania gości powstał w ramach projektu BalticMuseums 2.0 Plus, przy współpracy z ośrodkami naukowymi i muzeami oceanograficznymi Południowego Bałtyku.

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Projects
The NMFRI Gdynia Aquarium MIR-PIB participates in numerous projects co-financed by the European Union, aimed at ecological education and the development of products intended for tourists.
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Plan Your visit
Plan your time spend in the Gdynia Aquarium. See options below.
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History of the Aquarium

Gdynia Aquarium has been operating in Gdynia since 1971. For more than 30 years, it was called the Oceanographic Museum and Marine Aquarium of the Sea Fisheries Institute in Gdynia. Because the name was too long and became inadequate to the function of this place, the decision was made to change it to the Gdynia Aquarium. However, it is worth remembering the history of the institution that is inherent in the history of the Marine Institute of Fisheries – State Research Institute, which dates back to June 18, 1921.

MLR building, Hel

K. Demel and M. Siedlecki with the participants of the marine biology course – July, 1929

Prof. dr K. Demel – the 60’s

Employees of MLR, Hel – 1938

Then, in Hel, the Marine Fisheries Laboratory was established. Its staff, including the adjunct professor Kazimierz Demel, began collecting natural specimens, which since 1924 was presented in MLR showcases and aquariums. At the end of the 20s of the last century, the collection counted a few hundred animal specimens and were presented at various exhibitions, eg in 1929 at the National Exhibition in Poznan. In the 1930s the collections were exhibited in the so-called “Baltic Museum”, which was one of the tourist attractions of Hel.

Sturgeon

Whale bones

Porbeagle

The shorthorn sculpin

In 1932, the Marine Fisheries Laboratory was renamed to the “Marine Station”, which at the turn of 1938/1939 was transferred to Gdynia to a newly built building on today’s avenue of Jan Paweł II 1. Unfortunately, due to the outbreak of World War II, the part designed for the museum and aquarium has not been finished. In the post-war period there were three small museum rooms and one aquarium in the Institute building. Another change came in 1949, when the Marine Station was renamed to the “Marine Fisheries Institute”.

Construction of the Marine Station – 1938

Construction of the Marine Station – 1938

Marine Station in Gdynia – 1939

Port of Gdynia 1938 – 1958

The rebuilding and the creation of the appropriate oceanographic museum was resumed in the late 1950s when the first technical projects were set up. But the proper construction and installation of aquariums began in 1969. The engineer responsible for that construction was Jan Banaszak, who was then the head of the Investment Department.

Construction work, building
Aquarium in 1969-71

Construction work, building
Aquarium in 1969-71

Construction work, building
Aquarium in 1969-71

Construction work, building
Aquarium in 1969-71

Construction work, building
Aquarium in 1969-71

Construction work, building
Aquarium in 1969-71

Construction work, building
Aquarium in 1969-71

Construction work, building
Aquarium in 1969-71

In 1971, as part of the 50th anniversary of the Institute, the Oceanographic Museum and Marine Aquarium were opened. The launch of the museum was made possible thanks to the great work of the managers of the institution: Stanisław Kujawa and his successor – Dr. Kazimierz Siudziński. 34 aquariums presented animals and plants, both marine and freshwater. Museum specimens have been collected by the Institute’s employees since 1921 and donated by captains and sailors of the Polish merchant and fishing fleet. Some of the wall expositions from that period can be viewed until this day. The map of the bottom of the Baltic Sea at the central part of the Baltic Sea Room, also remembers the beginnings of the “Museum”.

Aquarium building, 70’s

Aquarium building, 70’s

Opening of the Oceanographic Museum
and Marine Aquarium – 1971, the first one on the right id Dr. S. Kujawa

Aquarium Building, 1970-80

Further changes came in 2003, when the glass rotunda of the building was renewed and the first floor was now presenting a rich exposition of coral reef animals. Also this year, the name of the facility was changed to the Gdynia Aquarium. Two years later, two big snakes came to the Aquarium – the green anacondas. There was also a new aquarium exhibition – “At the border of Water and Land”. Along with the modernization of the exhibition, the aquarium education was developed. The Cinema and Conference Room, laboratories equipped with microscopes and computer equipment were established. In 2007. The Education Center has also prepared the Preschool Room full of marine toys, which are dedicated to the youngest. The Gdynia Aquarium is still modernized, enriched with new specimens, popular science events and certainly will surprise its quests many times more.

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