Click here for a larger map. The main floor of the Poulsbo Marine Science Center contains exhibits, classrooms, touch trays, and a Museum Store. The whole family will enjoy exploring the interesting plants and animals found in Puget Sound and surrounding waters. Experience close encounters with marine creatures and get your hands wet with the animals in our touch trays . Life Among the Plankton .
Plankton are the microscopic animals and plants that sit at the base of the ocean food chain.
Watch the living creatures do their thing. Also visit the exhibit The Bottom of the Story . Find out how sediments reveal the presence of people and our impact on our fragile water world. Shake hands with a sea cucumber while you get up close and personal with marine creatures, from sea stars to clams, urchins to snails, all residing in our touch trays. Meet our giant Pacific octopus, an intelligent creature native to our own Puget Sound.