Celebrate Shark Week Year-Round in Connecticut

Celebrate Shark Week by immersing yourself in a world of exceptional white wines at SIP Wine Bar, including both renowned favorites and hidden gems waiting to be discovered.

At Norwalk’s Maritime Aquarium, you can be there when they feed the sharks in the tank, and even get closer at the touch pool. Then, watch in wonder as the Maritime Aquarium's dive team goes into 110,000-gallon "Ocean Beyond the Sound" tank and swims with sand tiger sharks, lemon shark and other creatures of the sea.

With a dramatic recreation of some of the world's best undersea habitats, you can view sharks up close and personal at Mystic Aquarium. But it’s the touch and see "Shark Encounters exhibit" that will really pull you in. Plan a day to see the coral reef exhibits, plus the sea lions, penguins and beluga whales too!

If you’ve had your fill of live sharks, head over to the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven and discover a few of their dinosaur-sized ancestors. You can dig up and examine fossilized shark teeth and more.

Visit Uncle Buck’s Fish Bowl and Grill in Bridgeport, a unique underwater-themed family restaurant and bar with bowling. Here, families can eat and bowl under life-sized fish and sharks suspended from the ceiling, and also visit its 750-gallon saltwater aquarium with tropical fish.