Explore Long Beach
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The Aquarium of the Pacific opened in 1998 on Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach. Its galleries follow three regions of the Pacific Ocean: Southern California and Baja, the northern Pacific and the tropical Pacific. Visitors see sea otters, sharks, jellyfish and a large kelp forest tank, and can touch rays in a shallow lagoon.
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The Museum of Latin American Art, MOLAA, in the East Village of Long Beach was founded in 1996 by Robert Gumbiner and shows modern and contemporary art from Latin America and by Latino artists in the United States. The museum grew out of a former roller-skating rink, and a sculpture garden adjoins the galleries.
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tourist attraction · Long Beach The Queen Mary is a British ocean liner that crossed the North Atlantic for the Cunard line from 1936 to 1967, served as a troopship in the Second World War, and has been moored in Long Beach since 1967. Today it is a hotel and visitor attraction where guided tours lead through the Art Deco salons, the bridge and the engine room.
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The Battleship IOWA Museum is the battleship USS Iowa, moored at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro since 2012. Commissioned in 1943, the ship served in the Second World War, carried President Roosevelt across the Atlantic to the Tehran Conference and fought in Korea. Visitors walk the decks, gun turrets, bridge and crew quarters.
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