Updated for September 2026
The Best Aquariums in Norway
How this list is ordered: by how complete our listing is — how much we hold on opening hours, ticket prices, accreditation, photographs, animals and facilities. It is a measure of our own coverage, not a judgement of the venue. We hold no visitor scores or conservation assessments, so “best” here means every aquarium in Norway that qualifies for the list, fullest entry first.
Listed alphabetically
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Overnight stayBehind-the-scenes tourOn-site dining
Bergen Aquarium
Aquarium in Bergen Municipality
Bergen Aquarium, opened in 1960, is an aquarium in Norway. Animals on show include sjøløver, pingviner and otere.
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Keeper talk or showDisability admission concessionTouch pool
Drøbak Akvarium
Aquarium in Frogn
Opened in 1995 and pitched at children, it draws about 35,000 visitors a year. There are 14 tanks, two of them large, along with a touch pool. The fish are kinds common in Norwegian waters, including conger eel, wolffish and some sharks, alongside shellfish, molluscs, echinoderms, sea anemones and starfish.
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Lofotakvariet
Aquarium in Kabelvåg
It sits on the shore about 1 km west of the main settlement. An earlier aquarium, founded in 1931, ran until 1985, when the ageing building had to shut on safety grounds, and the replacement building opened in 1989. It closes through December and January and otherwise opens daily, with the longest hours from early June to the end of August.
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Animal encounterBehind-the-scenes tourParking
Polaria
Aquarium in Tromsø
Billed as the northernmost aquarium anywhere, it opened in May 1998 and had 167,000 visitors in 2025. Displays centre on Svalbard, with tanks of local sea life alongside open and display tanks of rock-shore animals and juvenile fish for children. There is also a panoramic cinema with five screens and an arctic walkway showing polar exploration gear, taxidermy and mock permafrost.
Our ranking methodology
This is not a ranking. The 4 venues above are listed alphabetically by name, the same order used throughout this site. We do not collect visitor reviews, star ratings, ticket-sales figures or a conservation-impact score, so none of those exist here to rank by — “best” in this page’s title means every venue that qualifies for this list, not first-to-last by quality. If we ever add a data source robust enough to support an honest ranking, this note and the order above will change together.