Birmingham Sealife

The Birmingham SeaLife Centre 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 a fully transparent underwater tunnel.

Birmingham Sealife Highlights :

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

In Easter 2009, the Centre announced as its newest attraction a "Sensorama 4-D Cinema". So-called because in addition to 3-D viewing, the audience can be subjected to sensations such as wind, salt spray, and the smell the seaweed, or other sensations depending on the (sea-themed) film. Over Christmas the cinema showed the Polar Express in 4D and in 2011 the film was based on Happy Feet (2006 film)

By Easter 2010, Hammerhead Sharks were resident in the ocean tank.

This is the place to book your hotel and Sealife Ticket package

Essential Information at Birmingham Sealife:

Opening Times :
They are open (Weekdays) from 10am - 5.00pm, and (Weekends and School Holidays) 10am - 6.00pm (excluding Christmas Day). Last admission is 1 hour before closing time.

Please be aware that due to limited capacity, we strongly advise all guests to book online tickets in advance of their visit, particularly when planning to visit during weekends or school holidays.

Guests with pre-booked tickets are guaranteed entry and will be given priority over guests who arrive with no tickets, who may have to wait to be admitted due to our limited capacity.

During weekends and holiday periods, please be aware that there may a waiting time to enter the SEA LIFE centre. The attraction is busiest between 11am and 3pm.

To avoid the wait and to guarantee your entrance into the attraction, pre-book a timed ticket either online or over the phone by calling 0871 423 2110*
*calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras

Feeding Times

SEAHORSE TALK - 10:30am

• Discover these shy and majestic creatures
• Watch the seahorse hug the sea beds to avoid being swept away
• See them gathering shrimp for dinner
• Find out how you can help the Seahorse from becoming extinct

OCEAN TANK TUNNEL WALK THROUGH - 11am, 2:30pm and 4:30pm

• Explore our fascinating ocean tunnel
• Get REALLY close to our hammerhead & black tip reef sharks
• Find out how Molokai and Gulliver, our giant sea turtles, came to us
• Learn about the tropical fish that share the ocean tank

OTTER MADNESS - 11:30am, 1:30pm and 3pm

• Meet our very cute otter family!
• Watch them being hand fed by their favourite keeper
• See their clever tricks & watch them as they chase each other
• Find out how you can help Otters survive in the wild

BAY OF RAYS - 12:30am

• Ray talk from one of our marine experts
• Find out more about our different types of Ray
• Learn about what they eat
• See them swim to the surface of their tank to feed

DEADLY SHARK LAGOON - 3:30pm

• Feeling brave? Enter Shark Lagoon
• Come up close to sharks of all shapes and sizes!
• Learn how to identify different types of sharks
• Discover what sharks like to eat

Download your own Visitors Map

How to find Birmingham Sealife:
By car :
M6 Jct 6 or M5 Jct 3 and follow signs for the city centre and the NIA. Sat Nav Code for NIA car park is B16 8ET.

By train :
Nearest Stations are Birmingham New Street and Birmingham Snow Hill - follow walking signs for the ICC and the NIA.

By bus :
Any bus to Birmingham City Centre and follow walking signs for the ICC and NIA. Buses serving Broad Street, include numbers 1,9,22,23,24,29,126

Disabled Access :
The centre is fully accessible to wheelchairs throughout.

Location :
National SEA LIFE centre, The Waters Edge, Brindleyplace, Birmingham, B1 2HL

Sat Nav users please use postcode B16 8ET to take you to the NIA car park

The nearest car park is:
Located a few minutes walk away at the National Indoor Arena (NIA). The car park is pay and display. Ticket machines will accept 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p, £1 and £2 coins and several also accept payment by debit/credit card.

Protect our Seas

• Breeding
• Seal Rescues
• Re-homing
• Campaigns

Seahorse Breeding

The programme has meant that they do not need to rely on external suppliers to find seahorses for their exhibitions. That means that none will ever be taken from the wild on their behalf. It also means that they may be able to use their own stock to resupply wild stock if they become extinct in the wild.

Disclaimer: We've tried to make the information on this web site as accurate as possible, but it is provided 'as is' and we accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience sustained by anyone resulting from this information. You should verify critical information (like visas, health and safety, customs and transportation) with the relevant authorities before you travel.