Homarus Centre
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The Homarus Centre offers a unique and interactive experience for all ages related to the mysterious world of the lobster and the Northumberland Strait ecosystem.
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Le centre Homarus offre une experience interactive et unique pour tout âge liée au monde mystérieux du homard et de l'écosystème du détroit de Northumberland.
Welcome to the Homarus Centre, an amazing aquarium located in Shediac, Canada. This educational facility offers visitors of all ages an opportunity to learn about the fascinating life cycle of lobsters and the lobster fishing industry.
Highlights of your visit include:
- Guided Tours: Enjoy fully guided tours led by knowledgeable staff who are eager to share their expertise.
- Interactive Experiences: Kids will love the touch tank, where they can interact with live sea creatures like lobsters, starfish, and more.
- Family-Friendly: The experience is fun for the whole family, making it a great option for visitors traveling with children.
- Informative Displays: Learn about lobsters through well-designed exhibits that include videos and fascinating facts.
- Bilingual Guides: Enjoy explanations available in both English and French, ensuring everyone can understand.
With friendly staff and engaging activities, the Homarus Centre is a must-visit destination for a unique and educational experience!
đź•’ Opening hours
- SUNDAY: 10H-18H
- MONDAY: 10H-18H
- TUESDAY: 10H-18H
- WEDNESDAY: 10H-18H
- THURSDAY: 10H-18H
- FRIDAY: 10H-18H
- SATURDAY: 10H-18H
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🗣️ Homarus Centre: Reviews
Fantastic experience: Fully guided tour with very knowledgeable guides. You'll learn about the full life cycle of a lobster, get to pet a lobster and learn about the lobster fishing industry.
Fantastic experience: The kids (and their dad) loved the touchtank...don't sleep on the clams, they're the most entertaining to pick up!
Fantastic experience: I correct my review I did visit the great information center Ps my first review was for another location sorry
Hello/Bonjour Stephan, we are sorry that you did not like to visit. Is there any thing we can change to help us improve the experience, we are always looking for suggestions. Thank you for your observations.
Fantastic experience: Really impressed with the tour and content.
Fantastic experience: The guided tour and facilities were excellent!
Positive experience: A nice little visit for the family, the kids enjoyed the touch tank.
Fantastic experience: Amazing museum to learn and interact with lobsters and other water creatures. Knowledgeable staff. Able to touch the creatures.
Fantastic experience: Kids had a lot of fun and learned so much
Fantastic experience: We were visiting from Australia and had an excellent time at the Homarus Centre leaning about Atlantic Lobster’s biology, ecosystem and fishing industry and technologies. I would recommend to any visitors to New Brunswick. Thank you again to the super friendly and professional staff!
Fantastic experience: We didn’t plan on coming here, but we stopped in to use the washroom on our way into Shediac. I had no idea what it was, but not only did we get some information about what was happening that day in shediac, we found out there was an interactive tour to learn about lobsters. WOW - I knew nothing about lobsters when I started. It was such an interesting tour. Well worth the time and fee to access. There’s also a touch tank at the end, and who doesn’t love a touch tank!
Fantastic experience: Worth the price 12$ per person French and english guides
Fantastic experience: A cool experience for kids and myself honestly. We learned about lobsters and you get to see them in all colours! They had a blue one! There are guided tours which are quick - Yannick was cool with the kids so that was awesome. Cool activity definitely worth the time.
Negative experience: Ehh, can't enter the museum without a tour time. Seems like it's just to pad out the runtime because there's really only 2 1/2 exhibits and the touch tank. Fun little place, not worth the money
Fantastic experience: Decent educational experience, probably more suited for kids but I did learn quite a few things and got to touch quite a few sea critters :)
Fantastic experience: Good knowledgeable tour about lobster! Our 5 year old enjoyed this, especially touching the lobster and other sea creatures.
Fantastic experience: Small museum that explains all basics about lobster.
Fantastic experience: Fantastic place to learn about lobsters. There's even a tank where you can touch lobsters, hermit crabs, starfish, and sea anemone.
Negative experience: On line it says you are open on the Saturdays and Sundays in the fall but when I went yesterday Sun Oct 22 you were not open . Is your on line info up to date?
So sorry, we will be open Saturdays only till December. Check our facebook page for the most updated information on closures.
Positive experience: The kids had fun and were able to touch some crustasions.
Fantastic experience: I really enjoyed this tour. Learned many things about lobsters I didn't know. Our group consisted of ages between 7 and 67 and we all enjoyed it immensely. The guides know so much and what they didn't know, they went to find out! We are from Shediac and it's great to learn so much about our lobsters! Highly recommend for any age. We spent atleast an hour here.
Fantastic experience: New facility. Great tour with lots of interesting facts on lobsters. The kids really enjoyed touching the lobsters and other sea creatures. Well worth the visit. Recommend to book ahead. Well worth the visit.
Fantastic experience: Great information stop
Fantastic experience: Small museum with live animals and explanation on lobsters . We enjoyed!
Fantastic experience: This is a great place to visit! The guides are knowledgeable and informative and the exhibit is well designed. I wish that we'd been able to explore the exhibit itself on our own a little more. The highlight was the 'petting' pool where you could touch and pick up different sea creatures. Don't forget to explore outside too! Tip - you can reserve your tickets on the phone in advance. I'd highly recommend doing this!
Fantastic experience: This place was fantastic. Our guide, Liam, answered every question we could throw at him. This is an excellent family activity to do. Well done Shediac!!
Fantastic experience: Beautiful exhibition to learn about lobsters!
Fantastic experience: We took the guided tour in the NEW building. (Opened 3 weeks ago) The guide was very informative and taught us so much about the whole lobster experence. The videos were very cool and the touch tank at the end was very nice
Positive experience: Nice Little But Unique (Eco-friendly) Attraction Our 2 families happened to drop by to attend the last tour during our Maritimes trip back in Aug 2019. It was a great learning experience about the region, the lobster nursery, seeing these creatures from various stages of development. The young lady that gave us the tour did an excellent job despite her difficulties expressing herself in English. The premises was bit small but offered a unique display that I never experienced. Merci.
Fantastic experience: This place was so cool! Learned so much about Lobsters :)
Fantastic experience: So educative! Realized I knew nothing about lobsters. And now I do! They are cannibals, fyi. Worth the visit!
Positive experience: Very informative about the life cycle of lobsters!
Fantastic experience: I was there today and I LOVED the exhibit the staff were very informative and answered all of our questions. I would really recommend this activity.
Fantastic experience: Very knowledgeble staffs about life of lobsters. My girls got to hold a lobster and sea star, they were so happy! I enjoyed watching little baby lobsters swim.
Fantastic experience: Be amazed and learn all about the secret lives of lobsters.
Fantastic experience: Good place for childrens and the staff is nice
Positive experience: Great for the kids. Find out about the life cycle of the beast. Very friendly and knowledgeable staff. Bilingues sans problèmes.
Fantastic experience: It was fun, entertaining, staff was super nice, got a chance to learn and see some super rare lobsters
Fantastic experience: Modest installation but kids and ourselves loved it. They have a nice virtual reality experience as well. Very cool.
Fantastic experience: It is a great place to visit and to learn about the life of the lobsters
Fantastic experience: My family had a wonderful visit. I appreciate how they made sure we were all enjoying ourselves. Our guide provided information that was easy for our 8 year old son to understand and also kept him engaged and interested. Even my husband and I walked away having learned something new. We will be sure to visit again.
Fantastic experience: Very nice to learn about the ocean for kids
Fantastic experience: Learned so much about lobster... our guide was awesome and will recommend this to everyone!!!
Fantastic experience: I was genuinely surprised by how fun this was. It looks kind of like a tiny shack from the outside, but the personalized tour was fun for adults and kids. I learned a lot about lobsters.
Positive experience: Excellent learning opportunity about lobsters. They had newborn lobsters and lobsters of all stages.