Recent representative attendance figures of public aquariums 

 are as follows? In Chicago, whose metropolitan population is 

 6,000,000, the aquarium had an attendance of 750,000. In San 

 Francisco, a city of some 2,750,000, the aquarium entertained 

 two million people. In Detroit, with 3,750,000 residents, over 

 1.5 million attended the aquarium. Vancouver's aquarium serves 

 400,000 people, with a population of 700,000. And in the Los 

 Angeles area with six and one half million persons, over 1.5 

 million attended Marine land of the Pacific. 



Metropolitan Boston's two and one half million persons today 

 have no aquarium. This is the gap, which the New England 

 Aquarium plans to fill. 



THE BUILDING AND ITS SURROUNDINGS 



The New England Aquarium Corporation is completing negotiations 

 with the Boston Redevelopment Authority for a site in the Water- 

 front Area of Boston harbor. The new aquarium will be located 

 on Long Wharf Plaza, at the foot of State Street overlooking 

 Boston Harbor. At this site, rich in maritime history, visitors 

 are minutes away from downtown Boston on foot, and are served 

 by rapid transit at the Atlantic Station. The Central Artery 

 expressway to the north and south passes 700 feet from the 

 Aquarium. 



The Aquarium will be a local educational and recreational cen- 

 ter which will draw the New England and tourist public to the 

 newly redeveloped waterfront. With a spectacular view of Boston, 



