In collaboration with Maui community partners, we welcomed Special Presidential Envoy U.S. Ambassador Nick Adams for the signing of a memorandum of understanding focused on strengthening tourism connections between Japan and Maui. We look forward to working together to help shape a stronger, more sustainable economic future for Maui.
Maui Ocean Center
Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
Wailuku, Hawaii 1,445 followers
Our Mission: To foster understanding, wonder and respect for Hawai‘i’s Marine Life.
About us
For over 20 years, Maui Ocean Center, The Aquarium of Hawaii has fostered understanding, wonder, and respect for Hawaii's marine life with visitors from around the world. Today, it is recognized as one of Maui’s top-rated attractions and listed among the “Top 10 Aquariums in the World” by TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards. Hawaii is one of the world’s most isolated archipelagos steeped in unrivaled beauty and cultural heritage. Regarded as the global capital of endemism, nearly 25% of all marine animals in Hawaiian waters are found nowhere else in the world. Maui Ocean Center serves as a portal into this world beyond our own, providing visitors with an immersive journey through an underwater paradise. Maui Ocean Center is home to the world’s largest displays of live Hawaiian corals and exhibits only marine animals found in Hawaii. Descend from the colorful Living Reef exhibits to the vast Open Ocean exhibit on a journey where encounters with schooling reef fish, sharks, stingrays, turtles, and an incredible diversity of marine life await. In 2019, Maui Ocean Center did what was never done before – bring guests eye-to-eye with Hawaii’s humpback whales in an immersive, 3D environment. Heralded as the first of its kind in the world, the multi-million dollar Humpbacks of Hawaii Exhibit & Sphere adds a new dimension to Hawaii’s famed humpback whale migration, enabling guests to experience a virtual encounter with life-sized whales in their own environment. Humpbacks of Hawaii was a finalist in the 2019 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards. The relationship between the Hawaiians and the sea and messages of environmental conservation are cornerstones of the Maui Ocean Center story. The collective experience of native wildlife, local culture, and our social responsibility to be stewards of the sea is what defines Maui Ocean Center as “The Aquarium of Hawaii.”
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https://mauioceancenter.com/
External link for Maui Ocean Center
- Industry
- Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Wailuku, Hawaii
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1998
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Primary
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192 Maalaea Rd
Wailuku, Hawaii 96793, US
Employees at Maui Ocean Center
Updates
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Maui Ocean Center announced the return of Heather Walters, a former digital marketing specialist, as the aquarium’s marketing director, effective April 1. - https://lnkd.in/gNbFdVqC
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More than 1,500 Maui residents and visitors — some from as far away as Canada and Italy — ran and walked in last weekend’s 15th annual Maui 5K at Maui Ocean Center, raising a record $83,000 for Maui Nui schools. - https://lnkd.in/g99MaCr5
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Matt Gorman, who began his career at Maui Ocean Center as a teenager, has been named the aquarium’s new curatorial director. Now 31, Gorman leads a team of a dozen aquarists and divers who are responsible for the marine life under Maui Ocean Center’s care. #MauiOceanCenter - https://lnkd.in/gU8uBm6u