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The aquarium began in the mid-1970s when then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer, (1921–2011), and the Commissioner of the city Department of Housing and Community Development, Robert C. Embry, inspired by a visit to the two-decade old New England Aquarium on the waterfront of Boston, Massachusetts, conceived and championed the idea of an aquarium as a vital component of Baltimore's overall ...
Aequorea victoria, also sometimes called the crystal jelly, is a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, or hydromedusa, that is found off the west coast of North America.. The species is best known as the source of aequorin (a photoprotein), and green fluorescent protein (GFP); two proteins involved in bioluminescence.
Aurelia aurita (also called the common jellyfish, moon jellyfish, moon jelly or saucer jelly) is a species of the family Ulmaridae. [1] [2] All species in the genus are very similar, and it is difficult to identify Aurelia medusae without genetic sampling; [3] most of what follows applies equally to all species of the genus.
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Life & times of Babe Ruth, Baltimore’s native son who became America’s first sports celebrity & an international icon, also the official Museum of the Baltimore Orioles and the archives of the Baltimore Colts and Johnny Unitas [1] Baltimore Clayworks: Mount Washington: Ceramics: Artists and student studios with public exhibition gallery
In the summer of 2009, the aquarium debuted the exhibit Seahorse Kingdom. In March 2010, Jellyfish Discovery was opened as the largest jellyfish exhibit worldwide. In March 2011, SeaLife officially completed the transition to a Merlin Entertainments' Sea Life Centre, and was renamed Sea Life Minnesota Aquarium.
Soil collected from George Armwood's lynching in Maryland sits inside a glass jar next to 37 others within an exhibit in the Reginald F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore.
The Maryland Science Center (MSC), located in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, opened to the public in 1976. [1] It includes three levels of exhibits, a planetarium, and an observatory. [2] It was one of the original structures that drove the revitalization of the Baltimore Inner Harbor from its industrial roots to a thriving downtown destination.