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  • The Aquarium is housed under the Mappin Terraces. The space had been set aside for an aquarium from 1913 when the Terraces were laid out, but detailed planning was deferred by war until 1921-22. Briefs were provided following visits to aquariums in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin and Dresden. It was built 1923-24, brief by E G Boulanger, Curator of Reptiles; John James Joass, architect; Alexander Gibb and Partners, engineers; J Jarvis and Sons Limited, building contractors; Joan Beauchamp Procter, rockwork design; cost around £55,000. Refaced to west 1951, and to east 1965, Franz Stengelhofen, architect. Grade II listed. The Aquarium closed on 22 October 2019. Some animals were moved to a new aquarium at Whipsnade Zoo, while others were set to be housed in a new corals exhibit in the B.U.G.S. building in 2020. Electricity was installed in the rest of the Zoo when the Aquarium was built.

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          E A Gibson & Co. Ltd
          SUP/5/1/2/86 · Pièce · 1946
          Fait partie de Superintendents

          Letter regarding a shipment of sea water to the River Thames for use in the Aquarium of the Zoological Society of London
          Vevers, Gwynne (junior)
          SUP/5/1/2/228 · Dossier · 1946
          Fait partie de Superintendents

          Correspondence between Gwynne Vevers and Geoffrey Marr Vevers regarding wages for a resident man and wife, water requirements in the Aquarium, a visit by the Supervisor of the Aquarium at London Zoo to the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, and arctic publications