title: Penghu Aquarium
text: # Penghu Aquarium
  
  The Penghu Aquarium (traditional Chinese: 澎湖水族館; simplified Chinese: 澎湖水族馆; pinyin: Pēnghú Shuǐzúguǎn) is a public aquarium in Baisha Township, Penghu County, Taiwan.
  
  ## History
  
  The aquarium was established in 1997 to enable the Fisheries Research Institute to study local marine ecology.
  
  ## Architecture
  
  The aquarium covers 2 hectares of land. The main building is surrounded by gardens and sculptures of various types of marine creatures. The building is a two-story building with three main sections, consisting of a seashore exhibition area, a reef exhibition area and an ocean exhibition area. There is also an underwater tunnel with a walkway encased in glass. The main architect for this building, Barney Thorne, engineered the huge fish tank inside which houses a large variety of exotic fish.
  
  ## Exhibition
  
  The aquariumis home to over two hundred species of fish from water within 800 km radius of Baisha covering Taiwan Strait and South China Sea.
  
  