Mote Marine
About Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium isn't just the home of incredible sea animals, but party animals too! Have you next birthday party at Mote, and enjoy fun and educational ocean activities, games and crafts while spending the day with family and friends. Parties include two hours at our party venue at Mote Marine Aquarium and are led by Mote educators. Continue the celebration at your leisure as you visit The Aquarium.Pricing & Packages
Breakfast with the Sharks and Mornings at Mote
Rise & dive! Start your day with our sharks before the Aquarium opens to the public. You and your chums will have a great time as you sink your teeth into a continental breakfast, explore cool shark artifacts such as jaws and skin, watch a narrated feeding at our Shark Tracker exhibit, and have your own personal Q&A with a Mote educator and shark expert. After breakfast, you’ll learn about the breakthrough research going on at Mote during a guided tour of our Aquarium. Spend as much time as you like after your breakfast and tour, as admission to Mote Aquarium and Goldstein Marine Mammal Center is included. Mako no bones about it: you’ll have a blast at our Breakfast with the Sharks!
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SHARK ENCOUNTER
You can be chef to the sharks and find out how they get their vitamins during our Shark Encounter, a behind-the-scenes program atop the 135,000-gallon shark habitat in Mote Aquarium. And don’t worry — our sharks’ favorite food is fish! Up to three guests may join Mote staff to prepare brunch for our sharks and large fish, including blacknose, nurse and sandbar sharks, southern stingrays, tarpon, snook, goliath grouper and more. Guests will learn about shark biology, care, feeding and research from elasmobranch specialists. Participants in Shark Encounter will help Mote’s aquarium biologists feed the sharks during our public narrated training session — a special program where sharks are trained to swim toward patterned targets to receive their food.
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Only available on Wednesdays, 10:00-11:30AM with advanced reservations
Totally Turtles
'Sea'lebrate with activities based on sea turtle biology, conservation and research
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Parties are offered on Saturdays and Sundays. Mote birthday parties are for children turning 4-13 years old only, due to the content and activities we engage participants in. Please note that our parties emphasize fun while practicing science and conservation.
Marine Mammal Mania Party
Party goers will flip for our activities based on dolphin and manatee biology, conservation and research.
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Parties are offered on Saturdays and Sundays. Mote birthday parties are for children turning 4-13 years old only, due to the content and activities we engage participants in. Please note that our parties emphasize fun while practicing science and conservation.
Snazzy Sharks Party
Enjoy fin-tastic activities based on shark biology, conservation and research
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Parties are offered on Saturdays and Sundays. Mote birthday parties are for children turning 4-13 years old only, due to the content and activities we engage participants in. Please note that our parties emphasize fun while practicing science and conservation.
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1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota, FL, USA
