The Lost Bet
This file appears in: The National Aquarium
Mayor William Donald Schaefer swimming with a mermaid at the National Aquarium
This file appears in: The National Aquarium
The National Aquarium
How the National Aquarium came to be in Baltimore is the story of three different aquariums that, over time, became one.
Our story begins in the middle. In the 1970s, Baltimore mayor William Donald Schaefer and his Commissioner of the city…