Get ready for a splash of fun at Tynemouth Aquarium with exciting seasonal events happening all year round—perfect for school holidays and family days out!
SUMMER 2025
20th July – 31st August
New activities every week! Dig up the past with fossils, get snappy selfies with sea creatures, rub shoulders with royalty, say hello to real-life mermaids, meet a baby dino!
Get Your Legends Unearthed Passport from the 20 JUL- 31 AUG
Join us for our summer of fun and get your very own Legends Unearthed Passport filled with activities and quests to complete around the aquarium! From finding dinosaur fossils to storytelling puzzles, there is a day full of fun packed inside.
20-26 JUL: Fossil Finders with Charlie the Clownfish
Our Legends unearthed launches with our Fossil Finder dig pit! This archaeological dig will be open from the 20th July until the 31st August, how rawr-some is that? You can also meet Charlie the clownfish this week in his best explorers gear to search around the aquarium and find all of the hidden fossilised skeletons of dinosaurs long, long, ago.
27 JUL – 2 AUG : Meet the Sea Creatures
Come along in the summer to meet some familiar faces who live under the sea! You may recognise this sea sponge and starfish… Pop along and say hi to them during one of our character sessions.
3 AUG – 9 AUG: Meet Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and her beast will be visiting the aquarium this week! A magical chance for your littles to meet some of their favourite storybook characters in real life while experiencing the magic of the aquarium.
10 – 16 AUG: Mermaid Meet & Greet
Our local mermaids will be swimming along to the aquarium. They will be catching up with their fishy friends and all of our guests! Pop along for a chance to meet one of them and have a mer-mazing day at the aquarium.
17 – 23 AUG: Fossil Finders with a baby Dino
It’s Fossil Finders Week! Get a chance to meet our Baby Dino and Explorer on a guided tour as you discover hidden dinosaur bones.
24-31 AUG : Princess Meet and Greet
The news of our amazing summer activities has reached Snow White and Cinderella and they want to join in with our summer fun! Pop along for a chance to meet one during your visit to our beautiful aquarium.
