The new Mote Science Education Aquarium (SEA) will open to the public on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025—a $130 million undertaking that represents both the largest expansion in Mote Marine Laboratory’s ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - Mote Marine Laboratories has officially added to their repertoire of research facilities. The Mote team cut the ribbon on the Mote SEA, or Science Education Aquarium, with the ...

At its Aquaculture Resarch Park in Sarasota on Monday, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium hosted a ribbon cutting to celebrate the opening of its three new state-of-the-art research facilities designed ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — The long-awaited opening for the new Mote Science Education Aquarium is here, and the preview line wrapped around the door for those first few families looking to check it out.

Sarasota's Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium held a sneak preview event of its new multimillion-dollar Mote Science Education Aquarium for its members on Oct. 6, 2025, in Sarasota County at Nathan ...

Crews used large nets, water-filled containers and box trucks to relocate hundreds of river otters, sea turtles, manatees, penguins and sharks to their new home: Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium.