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Brigham Young University – BYU Aquarium

The day before Valentine’s Day, my wife and I wanted to do something unique together. As a kid, I remember going to the BYU aquarium with my dad, but he remembered very little about it. I asked other BYU students where the aquarium was. The usual response was “Is there an aquarium on campus?”.

I did some research online and found a vague reference to an aquarium on the BYU campus in Provo, Utah. I found out that there was an aquarium in the John A. Widtsoe Building and that it was open to the public. We were determined in our search to find it.

We went to the bookstore on campus, which is pretty amazing I might add, and after exploring the bookstore, we asked one of the associates at the front desk where we could find the Widtsoe building. They told us where to go. We walk about 400 feet and find the building which is in a dark spot on campus.

When we got there, we went down to the ground floor of the building. To our surprise, there was an aquarium, but it really wasn’t that amazing. Along the wall there were about 4-5 fish tanks with one giant fish and many small fish per tank. There was a crab or lobster, however not much else. They have cool art on the wall showing different scientific facts about fish and underwater life. This aquarium is apparently used for students to get some real life experience in the study of underwater life.

So if anyone has ever asked you if BYU has an aquarium, the answer is yes, it’s just not that surprising. If you want to see an amazing aquarium in Utah County, Cabela’s near Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah is your best bet.

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