Open since 2013, the Austin Aquarium invites kids and their families to marvel at jellyfish, touch sting rays, and hand-feed sharks without having to leave the city. The aquarium is fairly small, but in addition to a diverse collection of fish, it boasts a rain forest habitat home to reptiles and lemurs as well as an aviary full of parakeets and lorikeets. Visitors are free to interact with the birds in the aviary, and for an additional fee, they can feed an octopus, play with a lemur or a kinkajou, and hold a friendly sloth.

Austin Aquarium, 13530 US-183 #101, Austin, TX 78750, Phone: 512-222-5586

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