The largest aquarium in Europe today celebrates its 35 years of existence. With its 900,000 annual visitors, Nausicaá is the second most visited site of the Hauts-de-France. Behind the huge basins and the 58,000 animals of the national center of the sea, located in Boulogne-sur-Mer, dozens of healers work every day for the well-being of marine species.
The largest aquarium in Europe today celebrates its 35 years of existence. With its 900,000 annual visitors, Nausicaá is the second most visited site of the Hauts-de-France. Behind the huge basins and the 58,000 animals of the national center of the sea, located in Boulogne-sur-Mer, dozens of healers work every day for the well-being of marine species.
We come first to see. We stay to understand. Thirty-five years after its opening, Nausicaá illustrates the decisive moult of the aquarium: from a space of contemplation, he became a committed actor of the knowledge and protection of the living.