Hands-on Exhibits
Children LOVE our Year-Round Exhibits!
Coral Reef Pool and Stingray Touch Tank
Fan Favorite!
Learn a multitude of fun and interesting facts about the ocean's top predators at Sandoway's 15,000-gallon saltwater pool filled with Nurse Sharks and reef fish. All ages can touch stingrays in our stingray touch tank.
Celebrate
Invertebrates
Touch Tank!
Have you ever touched a sea star or urchin? Now you can at Sandoway's invertebrate touch tank. Visitors will get the chance to touch Urchins, Sea Stars, and Sea Cucumbers. Learn why they are important to our oceans and how we can protect them!
Everglades
Room
See up Close!
Sandoway’s resident reptiles, freshwater fish, and mangrove inhabitants call this room home. Discover some of Florida’s native and invasive reptile species including our Python, Alligator, Corn Snake and more!
Discovery Porch
Learn about tortoises!
Sandoway's Discovery Porch is home to Maggie, our large Gopher Tortoise. Learn why she is considered a Keystone Species.
Observation Deck
Great Photo Opportunity!
Step outside onto our second floor observation deck and enjoy a fantastic second story ocean view!
Reptile and Amphibian Room
Be Amazed!
Learn about reptiles and amphibians and even an axolotl! Try to find all the tree frogs and learn why they have sticky toes.
Coral Reef Room
The Living Reef!
Discover life in the ocean by looking in our saltwater tanks. Learn about invasive lionfish, artificial reefs, and see beautiful live corals.
Children's Activity Room
Interactive!
This beautiful second story beach front room is full of children’s books focused on science and nature as well as microscopes and illusions.
Nocturnal Room
Look Closely!
This room is dedicated to Florida's creatures of the night! Learn about sea turtle nesting, bat echolocation, owls and their prey as well as skunks and learn why they are important to our food chain.
The Yvonne S. Templeton
Shell Gallery
The Albert and Ann Becker Shell Collection
This magnificent shell collection is the largest in Southeast Florida, having nearly 10,000 “museum quality” shells. These beautiful shells were collected over a forty-year period by a husband-and-wife team, Albert and Ann Becker. In 2002 the entire world class collection was donated to Sandoway Discovery Center from the Linda Becker Dean Family. After Linda’s inheritance of the collection from her aunt and uncle, the family wanted to find the right home for the precious shells. After much research and planning, they chose Sandoway Discovery Center to preserve the collection in its entirety.
