How many zoos have you visited that are now closed?

SwampDonkey said:
I think that only three have closed, a fourth closed their original location but then opened a new one a few miles away (Tarpon Springs Aquarium).

Gator Jungle (near Tampa, FL. now it is "Dinosaur World")
Maine Aquarium (Saco Maine)
Discovery Island (Disney World, Lake Buena Vista FL.)
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I missed a couple:
Pier Aquarium (St. Petersburg Florida USA)
Aquatopia (Antwerp, Belgium)
 
I've visited three facilities that are now closed.

Bowmanville Zoo (Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada)
Manly Sea Life Sanctuary (Sydney, Australia)
Cairns Tropical Zoo (Cairns, Australia)
 
I have a list of eighteen, includes Aquarium and bird gardens
1 Bridgemere wildlife park
2. Birmingham zoo(the one before the Nature Centre)
3. Hotham Park Bognor Regis
4. Cricket St Thomas wildlife park ( I always thought that this place could have achieved so much more)
5. Delamere Bird Garden Furze Hill Worcestershire
6. Mallaig Aquarium
7. Margate Dolphinarium
8. Margate Dreamland Zoo
9. Southam zoo
10. Exmoor Bird Gardens
11 Weymouth Aquarium
12. Stapeley The Palms
13 Smestow Wildlife Centre
14. Feckenham Bird Gardens
15. Suffolk Wildlife Park
16. Henley in Arden Bird Gardens
17. Norton Grange (private zoo in Worcestershire)
18. Bristol Zoo
Some I miss ,some I don't (I don't want to name them )
 
Ned said:
Aqualand, Torquay
Birdland - the original Len Hill site
Blackpool Tower Aquarium - there was also a free flight bird room
Brean Bird Garden
Bristol Zoo
Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park
Gatwick Zoo
Leeds Castle Aviary
Padstow Bird Garden
Prinknash Bird Park
Rare Species Conservation Centre
Southport Zoo
Syon House - there used to be a butterfly house and reptile house there
The Living Coast, Torquay
The Ark, Evesham Country Park
Wellplace Zoo
Weston Seaquarium
Wild Walk @Bristol - now Bristol Aquarium
Windsor Safari Park
Valencia Zoo - the old zoo not todays Bioparc
Dusit (Bangkok) Zoo
UnderWater World, Singapore
Povoacao Zoo, Sao Miguel Island, Azores
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Thanks Ned,reading this has reminded me of the Ark at Evesham, I will add it to my list
 
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I have been finding out about yet more facilities that are now closed and so I've updated my list here just for the heck of it. Little Ray's Nature Centre and Border City Petting Zoo (both in Canada) are not surprises, but I was a tad shocked to learn that a Sea Life Aquarium had shut down in Germany. That one stands out as the Sea Life brand seems fairly reputable worldwide.

29 Closed Zoos/Aquariums:

Polar Park (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Alberta Wildlife Park (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Little Ray’s Nature Centre & Sloth World (Edmonton, AB, Canada)
Stanley Park Zoo (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Rainforest Reptile Refuge (Surrey, BC, Canada)
Mountain View Conservation Centre (Langley, BC, Canada)
Border City Petting Zoo (Lloydminster, SK, Canada)

National Aquarium (Washington, D.C., USA)
Portland Aquarium (Oak Grove, OR, USA)
Oregon Undersea Gardens (Newport, OR, USA)
World Aquarium (St. Louis, MO, USA)
G W Exotic Animal Park (Wynnewood, OK, USA)
National Park Aquarium (Hot Springs, AR, USA)
Northwest Arkansas Reptile Museum (Berryville, AR, USA)
Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari (Gentry, AR, USA)
Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden & Mirage Aquarium (Las Vegas, NV, USA)
Feline Conservation Center (Rosamond, CA, USA)
Morro Bay Aquarium (Morro Bay, CA, USA)
Glacier Ridge Animal Farm (Van Dyne, WI, USA)
Jo-Don Farms (Franksville, WI, USA)
Special Memories Zoo (Greenville, WI, USA)
San Angelo Nature Center (San Angelo, TX, USA)

Busselton Oceanarium (Busselton, WA, Australia)
Marapana Wildlife World (Karnup, WA, Australia)
Glen Karaleea Deer Park (Donnybrook, WA, Australia)

Het Arsenaal Aquarium (Vlissingen, Netherlands)
Klein Costa Rica (Someren, Netherlands)

Serpentarium Blankenberge (Blankenberge, Belgium)

Sea Life Konigswinter (Konigswinter, Germany)
 
snowleopard said:
....but I was a tad shocked to learn that a Sea Life Aquarium had shut down in Germany. That one stands out as the Sea Life brand seems fairly reputable worldwide.
Sea Life Konigswinter (Konigswinter, Germany)
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No surprise really. Sea Life is a corporate business, and I expect would not hesitate to close a venue if it is not working, just as McDonalds would not hesitate to close a store if it does not work. It speaks to the health of the brand.
 
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MRJ said:
No surprise really. Sea Life is a corporate business, and I expect would not hesitate to close a venue if it is not working, just as McDonalds would not hesitate to close a store if it does not work. It speaks to the health of the brand.
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I mean, they were cut-throat enough to axe the very first SeaLife site in Oban, UK a few years back after years of neglecting it, withholding funding and not bothering to promote it even within the local area :p so they certainly wouldn't even blink at closing down a random site in Germany!
 
Announced today that Rhyl(North Wales UK) sealife centre has closed its doors today for the last time.
 
Embu said:
Announced today that Rhyl(North Wales UK) sealife centre has closed its doors today for the last time.
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Rhyl Seaquarium wasn't a Sealife Centre. There had been another Seaquarium in Weston-Super-Mare but that closed a couple of years ago. I guess the closure of Rhyl puts an end to Seaquarium as a business?
 
Noorder Dierenpark (Emmen, Netherlands)
Vogelpark Utropia (Middelburg, Netherlands)
Het Arsenaal (Middelburg, Netherlands)
Grottenaquarium (Valkenburg, Netherlands)
Reptielenzoo Serpo (Delft, Netherlands) (might re-open at a new location, but that would count as a different zoo imo)

Aquatopia (Antwerp, Belgium)
Vogelpark en Vlindertuin het Zwin (Knokke-Heist, Belgium)

Dusit Zoo (Bangkok, Thailand)

Simón Bolívar Zoo and Botanical Garden (San Jose, Costa Rica)
 
I think only the World Aquarium in Saint Louis, more specifically the location in the City Museum. I visited in 2012, the aquarium relocated in 2015-16, and then closed for good in 2019
 
Hello.

1. The zoo at Beto Carrero World - Penha, state of Santa Catarina

That's it.
 
The SEA Laboratory in Redondo Beach, CA is, I believe, the only permanently closed facility I’ve ever been to. That one was a truly tragic loss for the community and the animals, though I think most found new homes. I went to the first Big Bear Alpine Zoo many times, which technically was closed, but it was of course immediately replaced by a completely new, vastly expanded version under the same management down the street. I actually need to go to that one still haha.
 
Three zoological facilities I've been to that have closed are:
  • Marineland of the Pacific (fantastic theme park that I liked better than Sea World)
  • Lion Country Safari in Irvine, CA (drive-through animal park)
  • Oregon Undersea Gardens (small aquarium that didn't live up to the hype)
 
Gator Jungle (near Tampa, FL. now it is "Dinosaur World")
Maine Aquarium (Saco Maine)
Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden & Mirage Aquarium (Las Vegas, NV)
Discovery Island (Disney World, Lake Buena Vista FL.)
Marineland of Florida (technically it is still a marine attraction, but it is not at all the same place that it was in the 1990s)
Pier Aquarium (St. Petersburg Florida USA)
The old Tarpon Springs Aquarium (since moved a few miles down the street into a new facility)

Aquatopia (Antwerp, Belgium)
 
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