                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 

              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.



DATE: Saturday, June 15, 1996               TAG: 9606210730

SECTION: DAILY BREAK             PAGE: E8   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: SPECIAL EDITION: A VISITOR'S GUIDE TO THE EXPANDED VIRGINIA MARINE

SCIENCE MUSEUM

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GUIDE: VIRGINIA MARINE SCIENCE MUSEUM THE VIRGINIA MARINE SCIENCE MUSEUM'S $36.7 MIILION EXPANSION OFFICIALLY OPENS TODAY, THOUGH SOME EXHIBITS ARE NOT YET FINISHED. NOTABLE PARTS OF THE EXPANSION INCLUDE SEAL AND OTTER EXHIBITS, THE HUGE NORFOLK CANYON AQUARIOUM, AN IMAX 3-D MOVIE THEATER AND AN AVIARY.

ILLUSTRATION: Map

GRAPHIC

Graphic illustrated and reseached by ROBERT D. VOROS

Written, researched ans edited by ERIC SUNDQUIST

SOURCES: Virginia Marine Science Museum (special thanks to Alice

Scanlan and Chris Mast); E. Verner Jphnson and Associates, Inc.

[For a copy of the graphic, see microfilm for this date.]