Our Tentacled Receptionist

An octopus began greeting the public at the Visitor Center shortly after the building opened as the Public Wing in 1965. It hasn't been the same octopus, of course. There have been many greeters, each with its own personality and level of enthusiasm for the job - and each with its own name, chosen by our visitors.

Read more about the Pacific octopus.

Feeding times

Visitors enjoy watching our aquarists feed the octopus. Our current octopus gets fed three times a week:

Octopus Feeding: Monday, Thursday and Saturday at 1 p.m.

New exhibits

Podcasts & videos

Still popular:

Global Scale

Bird's Eye Scale

Eye Level Scale

Microscopic Scale

Patterns

Chaos

The Octopus

Hennings Auditorium

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