Hands-on Exhibits
Children LOVE our Year-Round Exhibits!
Coral Reef Pool & Shark Feedings
Fan Favorite!
Learn a multitude of fun and interesting facts about the oceans top predators, while watching them eat their breakfast.
Celebrate
Invertebrates
Touch Tank!
Have you ever touched a sea star or urchin? Now you have the chance at Sandoway's touch tank. Visitors will get the chance to touch Urchins, Sea Stars, Sea Cucumbers and Horseshoe Crabs. Learn why they are important to our oceans and how we can protect them!
Everglades Room
Get up Close and Personal
Sandoway’s resident reptiles and amphibians call this room home. Discover some of Florida’s native and invasive reptile species, including, our Red Rat Snake, Python, Alligator, and more!
Discovery Porch
See if Mr. Crystal talks?
Sandoway Discovery Porch is home to some of Florida’s native Turtle and Tortoise species. Spend time with Maggie, our large Gopher Tortoise. Enjoy our fresh water turtle pond home to our Yellow Bellied Slider and a Peninsular Turtle. Don’t forget to take to time to talk with our beautiful Blue and Gold Macaw, Mr. Crystal!
Observation Deck
We provide binoculars!
Step outside onto our second floor observation deck and enjoy a fantastic second story ocean view! Borrow a pair of binoculars to bring your view even closer. Great photo opportunity!
*Currently closed due to COVID-19 restrictions *
Microscope Room
Be Amazed!
Have you ever wanted to see snake skin or dragonfly wings under a microscope? You can do just that in Sandoway's Microscope Room. Conduct your very own microscope experiments and find our answers to questions like, what is sand made of?
*Currently closed due to COVID-19 restrictions *
Coral Reef
The Living Reef!
Discover life in the ocean with our 300 gallon coral tank, Explore our deep reef, learn about the invasive lionfish and interact with invertebrates in our shallow water touch tank.
Children's Activity Room
Interactive!
This beautiful second story beach front room is full of children’s books focused on science and nature. Children can also color a picture of a shark or explore STEM with our ipad station
*Currently closed due to COVID-19 restrictions *
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 and opossums and why they are important to our food chain. Get a chance to see our opossum & screech owl!
The Yvonne S. Templeton Shell Room Gallery
The Albert and Ann Becker Shell Collection
This private shell collection is the largest in South East 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 dontated 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. The center currently has over 3,000 of the 10,000 shells on display.
