National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium

Regarding whale models made with equal proportion, there is a Megaptera novaeangliaejumping out of the water with whale babies, Physeter catodon taking a breath by showing his head and dabbling. Visitors can relieve summer heat by playing with water and experiencing whales' huge bodies and cool water.

This division is located at the second floor of the entrance lobby and the Coral Kingdom Pavilion, which is built mainly for providing special exhibitions with short-term theme and specialty.

Take the meaning of mountain and river as the design concept, the language of modeling landscape is blended naturally into the ecological park of intertidals with the wavelike slopping roof. Tourists are guided in to visit the NMMBA by moving track. Display functions (the display division of the Kengting National Park), consulting service, ticket buying and checking, purchasing, food and beverage, rest places and so on are provided.

In the lobby with 21 meters high up, one may see vivid models like dolphin, octopus, whale shark and killer whale hanging on the roof. High waterfall and delicate bronze statues are also seen there, big pieces of tent glass walls are designed both in the front and back of the lobby for tourists to appreciate the beauty of morning and sunset, it is a space displayed with both the scientific sense and art value.

Located at the ticket center, the outdoor supper grand glass works first seen in the country, named "Love and Newborn Life", it is created by the international well known Liuligongfang. The egg like sculptures are based on marbles with black mirror surfaces, carved with glass and combined with luminescent Acropora muricata, which symbolize the marine environment of Taiwan gleaming and heating with the poise of newborn life.

An exploring area located at the balcony outside the building, the facilities of this division are all models of marine life. It provides a place for kids to rest and have fun and encourages them to explore the secret of ocean world through imaginative and creative games.

With outstanding scheming and design, success in challenging difficult operation techniques as well as full control of excellent engineering quality, the NMMBA project has come to the fore among more than two thousand works in the contest and won the first prize of American 2001 Outstanding Engineering Awardby the American Engineering Counseling Association]. It is an encouragement to the NMMBA as well as a special honor shared by our people, it even established a new milestone for our public engineering quality.

With the super sizes of 4.85 meters x 16.5 meters x 0.33 meter, the Open Ocean displays the migrating fishes in the eastern coast of Taiwan. Besides the hold for water pressure of one million gallons, it may also stand the safety coefficient of vibration with 0.97G, the fireproof coefficient of three grade with 97% of light penetration, which is one of the major points of the NMMBA project.

Responsible for the water quality treatment of all kinds of exhibiting creatures all over the museum, there are complete supervision system and complicated relevant pipeline equipment. The life support system is the energy spring of the aquatic life as well as the essential equipment of maintaining the operation.

With an engineering technique holding water capacity of 1.5 million gallon, the 81 meters long displaying moving track of underwater view is the biggest underwater tunnel in Asia, which offers visitors a simulated diving tour.