Wadden experience center moves to AquaZoo

The Wadden Experience Center the Noordhoren is leaving its current location in a church in Holwerd. The animals and materials are moving to AquaZoo Leeuwarden, where they will have a new home. On December 2, the distinctive six-meter-long and two-meter-wide sea aquarium made the short thirty-kilometer drive to its new destination.

The shells, information materials and a mud tray, in which ebb and flow is simulated, are also moving from the Noordhoren to the Frisian zoo. Animals that will find a new home in the park near Leeuwarden are crabs, shellfish, tongues, plaice, pout eels, pipefish, sea sculpins and dogfish. These were previously transferred to a temporary home, where they are waiting to move into their new home.

Next StepBoard member Maja Geluk is pleased that the story of the Wadden Experience Center will reach an even wider audience at this new location. "The church in Holwerd is a fantastic place and we are grateful to have had the opportunity to start this center there. But it is now time for the next step. In AquaZoo we can even better show all the special animals and plants that live in the Wadden Sea."

The Wadden Experience Center De Noordhoren was established in 2009 after the Wadden Sea was declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. The objective was to establish a center with good, clear, educational and also fun facts and trivia about the Wadden Sea region.

Unique piece of the NetherlandsGeluk: "We find it important that people hear the story of this magnificent nature reserve and thereby realize, just like Unesco, how unique this piece of the Netherlands is. AquaZoo can convey this perfectly, as a zoo with an eye for native nature."

The aquarium and tidal tank will soon be on display at AquaZoo Leeuwarden.