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/ September 13, 2026
Ouwehands Dierenpark is a zoo in Rhenen, in the Dutch province of Utrecht, set on a wooded rise called the Laarschenberg at the edge of the Utrecht Hill Ridge. It traces its roots to 1919, when Cor Ouwehand started a small farm on the Grebbeberg…
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/ September 8, 2026
Barcelona Zoo opened its gates on September 24, 1892, inside the leafy Parc de la Ciutadella, making it one of Europe’s older urban zoos still operating today. Over more than a century, it grew from a modest municipal menagerie into a full-fledged conservation and research…
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/ September 2, 2026
Taipei Zoo is Taiwan’s largest zoological park, spread across 165 hectares in the hills of Wenshan District at the southern edge of the capital. Originally founded in 1914 as Maruyama Zoo during the Japanese colonial era, the zoo relocated to its current Muzha site in…
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/ August 31, 2026
ZooParc de Beauval is a sprawling zoological park in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, in France’s Centre-Val de Loire region, founded in 1980 by Françoise Delord and now run by her son Rodolphe Delord. Over four decades it has grown from a small bird park into one of the…
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/ August 31, 2026
Hellabrunn Zoo sits on the banks of the Isar River in Munich, Germany, and first opened to the public on August 1, 1911. Financial troubles tied to the aftermath of World War I forced it to close in 1922, but it reopened on May 23…
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/ August 31, 2026
Tierpark Berlin opened in 1955 in the Friedrichsfelde district of East Berlin, created as the divided city’s eastern counterpart to the Berlin Zoological Garden in the west. Built around the grounds of the 17th-century Friedrichsfelde Palace, the park was laid out using landscaping traditions dating…
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/ August 28, 2026
Artis Amsterdam Royal Zoo, formally known as Natura Artis Magistra, is the oldest zoo in the Netherlands and one of the oldest zoos in the world still in operation. Founded in 1838 by three zoology enthusiasts nicknamed ‘the three Ws’ — Gerard Westerman, J.W.H. Werlemann…
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/ August 27, 2026
Granby Zoo traces its roots back to 1944, when Pierre-Horace Boivin, the longtime mayor of Granby, Quebec, began assembling a small personal menagerie. That collection grew into an official zoo in 1953 after the local Notre Dame parish donated a 60-acre parcel of land to…
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/ August 26, 2026
Como Park Zoo has been a fixture of Saint Paul, Minnesota since 1897, when it began with a gift of three deer to the city. What started as a small municipal animal collection inside Como Park has grown into one of the last free zoos…
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/ August 26, 2026
John Ball Zoo sits on 140 acres on the west side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, tracing its roots back to 1884 when pioneer and former mayor John Ball donated 40 acres of parkland to the city. Animals first appeared on the grounds in the early…
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/ August 25, 2026
The Akron Zoo, officially the Akron Zoological Park, sits just west of downtown Akron, Ohio, on 77 acres of land, with 35 acres developed into animal habitats and guest amenities. Its roots trace back to the early 1900s, when Perkins Woods Park was gifted to…
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/ August 24, 2026
Zoo Knoxville sits just east of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, tracing its roots back to a small municipal zoo that opened in 1951 before being reorganized and expanded into the modern nonprofit zoo in 1971. Today the AZA-accredited facility covers 53 acres and is home to…
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/ August 24, 2026
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden opened on April 25, 1974, along the banks of the Saluda River in Columbia and West Columbia, South Carolina. What began as a state-supported project in the early 1960s took years to plan, partly because archaeologists had to survey four historic…
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/ August 24, 2026
Sedgwick County Zoo opened on August 25, 1971, in Wichita, Kansas, and has grown into one of the largest zoos in the country by both size and collection. Spread across 247 acres, with 115 acres currently developed for exhibits, the AZA-accredited zoo is regularly cited…
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/ August 23, 2026
The Toledo Zoo & Aquarium began in 1900 with a single donated woodchuck housed at Walbridge Park in Toledo, Ohio. From that modest start, it grew into one of the country’s most respected zoos, known for its Depression-era architecture and long history of animal care…
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/ August 23, 2026
Aquarium of the Bay sits at Pier 39 on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, offering visitors a walk-through look at the marine life that actually lives beneath the city’s own waterfront. Rather than showcasing exotic species from distant oceans, the aquarium focuses on the San Francisco Bay…
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/ August 22, 2026
The Dallas World Aquarium opened in October 1992 inside a gutted 1924 warehouse in the city’s West End Historic District, transforming an old industrial shell into a multi-level journey through rainforest canopies, coral reefs, and Mesoamerican ruins. Unlike a traditional single-building aquarium, the attraction has…
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/ August 22, 2026
North Carolina Aquariums is a state-run system of three public aquariums strung along the coast at Fort Fisher (Kure Beach), Pine Knoll Shores, and Roanoke Island. The system traces back to September 10, 1976, when the state opened three Marine Resources Centers built primarily for…
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/ August 22, 2026
The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium sits in Draper, Utah, as one of the largest aquariums in the country, tracing its roots back to founder Brent Andersen’s 1997 vision of bringing marine life education to landlocked Utah. What began as a traveling “Aquavan” program for schools…
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/ August 21, 2026
The Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center opened on June 14, 1986, as the Virginia Marine Science Museum, growing from a modest 100,000-gallon facility into one of the mid-Atlantic’s premier aquariums. Sitting on a 235-acre property just south of Rudee Inlet in Virginia Beach, Virginia…
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