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  • Family Fun At The Waikiki Aquarium - FEBRUARY 2026 Events And Programs

  • Type: Family
    Date: FEBRUARY 2026
    Time: see notes
    Location:
    2777 Kalakaua Avenue
    Honolulu, HI 96815
    Phone: 808-923-9741
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    Cost: see notes

Waikiki Aquarium Family Programs - FEBRUARY 2026
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FEATURED EXHIBIT/ - Amazing Adaptations Exhibit Opens!

Description: The Amazing Adaptations Gallery displays a diverse collection of seahorses, seadragons and pipefishes. These fishes are members of an unusual fish family, known as family Syngnathidae, and share some unusual characteristics. Perhaps most notably, the male fishes in this family carry the eggs and the females show no parental care. Some species even exhibit true male pregnancy and are the only animals known to do so. Other characteristics of these fish include elongated bodies enclosed in bony armor, tubular fused snouts, and the need to eat almost continuously due to the lack of a stomach. There are nearly 200 known pipefish species, 47 known seahorse species, and only two known seadragon species.

Extending over 60 feet of gallery wall and holding over 3,000-gallons of water, the gallery includes nine exhibits that display species ranging from local Hawaiian pipefishes and seahorses to exotic Australian seadragons. Additionally, two seahorse nursery tanks display juvenile seahorses bred at the aquarium and the live food these fish require to survive in captivity.
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ONGONG EVENTS

Hawaiian Reef Animals
Hawaiian Reef AnimalsTuesdays at 2:30 pm and 3:30 pmWednesdays at 2:00 pm Sneak-a-peek behind the sc
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Critter Corner
•    Fun for the whole family
Enjoy a Saturday morning Aquarium visit with a mix of hands-on activities and ocean discovery! Each week, families can explore a rotating lineup of experiences—hold a hermit crab or sea star, create your own ocean-themed puppet, learn about Hawaiian monk seals, and much more.

Saturday mornings this Spring. Free with admission to the Waikiki Aquarium.

February 7, 2026 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
February 14, 2026 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
February 21, 2026 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
February 28, 2026 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Science and Stories Seminar Series
Join us at the Waikīkī Aquarium or over Zoom every Thursday evening in February for an engaging, all-ages seminar series where science meets storytelling. Hawaiʻi Sea Grant Research Fellows and Pacific Islands Climate Adaptation Science Center Graduate Scholars will share their research as stories—exploring what motivates them, why their work matters, and using creative analogies to bring methods and data analysis to life. 
  Expect curiosity, connection, and a fresh way to experience science. 
* Doors open at 5:30 PM 
* Presentations begin at 6:00 PM 
* Free and open to the public 
 Come learn, listen, and get inspired! Register here
Feb 5, 2026 06:00 PM
Feb 12, 2026 06:00 PM
Feb 19, 2026 06:00 PM
Feb 26, 2026 06:00 PM

Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) Table
Hawaii Marine Animal Response (HMAR) is the largest Hawaii-based nonprofit marine species conservation, education, field support, rescue and stranding response organization.

Their mission is to undertake substantial actions that result in the preservation, recovery and stewardship of Hawaii’s marine protected species and the ocean ecosystem we share. Thousands of times each year, our outreach, field response, interventions, rescue and stranding support activities help us move towards our vision of Hawaii’s ocean ecosystem shared in sustainable harmony by humans and marine protected animals such as Hawaiian monk seals, sea turtles, dolphins, whales and seabirds.

Visit HMARʻs table at the Waikiki Aquarium to learn about HMAR, the work they do, and why they do it.

FEBRUARY 5, 2026 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
FEBRUARY 19, 2026 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm


Classes and Activities for Groups
Waikīkī Aquarium offers a variety classes for community and family groups from 6 people to 45 people
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Behind the Scenes Tour
Behind the Scenes TourWednesdays at 3:30 pm Learn what makes the Aquarium run, from fish food to qua
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Classes and Activities for Groups
Waikīkī Aquarium offers a variety classes for community and family groups from 6 people to 45 people. Book a Private Aquarium Tour or the interactive Hawaiian Reef Animals encounter for your clan. Or, an Aquarium After Dark or Fish School for your club or scout group.

FEATURED EVENTS

This Valentine’s Day, fall head over fins at Seaduction

Romance is in the water with live music, delicious bites from Chart House Waikīkī, and all the juicy details on how marine animals really do date night


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