National Sea Life Centre (Birmingham)

The National SEA LIFE Centre (grid reference SP059867) is an aquarium with over 60 displays of freshwater and marine life in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, England. Its one-million-litre ocean tank houses giant green sea turtles, blacktip reef sharks and tropical reef fish, with the UK's only fully transparent 360 degree underwater tunnel. The building was designed by Sir Norman Foster.

It is located alongside the Birmingham Canal Navigations Main Line Canal by Old Turn Junction and opposite the Barclaycard Arena (Once known as the National Indoor Arena). It opened on 5 July 1996 and in 2016 celebrates its 20th Anniversary.

In the Victorian era, the site was the location of two canal basins in Oozells Street Wharf.

The National SEA LIFE Centre 'transports visitors into an underwater world of discovery' and houses over 2,000 creatures from around the world. Moreover, the Centre works hard towards their 'Breed, Rescue and Protect' conservation projects and has an extensive seahorse breeding programme, with many species of newly reared seahorses in tanks viewable by visitors.

In other displays, it has a giant Pacific octopus, as well as horseshoe crabs, green sea turtles, lobsters, sharks, sting rays, and otters.

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