Mull Aquarium

A unique family-friendly aquarium on the Isle of Mull featuring touch pools, a large saltwater tank, quizzes, interactive games, and a cinema room. Europe's first catch-and-release aquarium where creatures stay for a maximum of 4 weeks before being returned to the sea.

Tobermory is home to Mull Aquarium. Opened in 2015 this fantastic new family attraction is unique, it is Europe's first catch-and-release aquarium. This is a modern and sustainable approach to an aquarium, where the creatures stay for a maximum of 4 weeks before they are returned to the sea, right where they came from. This practice minimises the impact to the environment as well as keeping the displays different every month.

Mull Aquarium not only houses 13 tanks, containing more than 60 species, but it has lots of information about local history and navigation, lighthouses and wildlife. There are plenty of interactive displays as well, from a virtual dive of Loch Sunart, to the new sandbox showing colour-changing contour lines.

Touch pool sessions are every hour during the summer season, giving children, and any adults too of course, the chance to hold the sea creatures. There is also a digital cinema room, showing short wildlife films and other films of local interest daily.

Our Marine Centre Manager, and our volunteer assistants, will be only too pleased to show you around and answer any questions.