Children Area

Following the standards of some of the largest museums in the world, the Aquarium of Crete offers a unique experience for children!

Activities

Various activities to inspire everyone

Games

Play and explore the marine environment

Events

Children parties, exhibitions, world days and more!

Learning

Educational programs for all ages

Follow the link to find out!

fishidquiz.cretaquarium.gr

360° Shark Tank Adventure

Our Zebra Shark isn’t too thrilled we borrowed his favorite chill spot — he keeps circling the camera and giving it little headbutts!

Want to really dive in?

Switch to Cardboard mode on your phone or use your VR headset (Meta/Oculus) to look around like you’re swimming with him!

Don’t forget: Change the video to 1080p for crystal-clear sharky mischief!
(Settings → Quality → 1080p)

Psaroneis Mobile App

Psaroneis? The underwater augmented reality coloring application.

The Psaroneis Coloring App combines a coloring book experience with the new augmented reality technology to bring you an amazingly fairy like experience with sound fx, background music, character animations and interactivity.

Developed by Fourthedesign!

A.R coloring underwater pages for kids have never been so exciting!

Psaroneis app has the functionality of coloring in a picture and (by holding your smartphone device or tablet over the coloring picture) at the same time watch the underwater characters on the page come to life in real time.

Draw - Scan - Interact - Play

Interact with the 3d characters by pressing on them and watch an animation take place.
Play and pause the animation when it comes to life. Zoom in, zoom out functionality. Rotate the characters in any direction.
Paint on your aquatic character and magically see it changing color and take a 3d form in real time.
Different sound effects and background music associated with each character.
Add as many coloring pages at the same time under the camera (more 3d characters simultaneously will appear).
View your animated Augmented Reality character from any angle.
Ability to remove/delete, color and re-paint them as many times as you want.
Color your characters by using various colouring materials, colouring pencils and markers, crayons, water based paints or even decorate with stickers. The possibilities for creation are endless.
Capture screen shots of your coloring underwater creations. Save your painted characters and send it to your friend.

Download and print the underwater characters, point your smartphone device or tablet over your coloring picture and watch the aquatic creatures come to life in real time!

Download Psaroneis Printables

More characters coming soon!!

Psaroneis Privacy Policy

Psaroneis? App Privacy Policy

© Cretaquarium understands and respects your concerns about privacy. This notice describes Psaroneis application privacy policy as it pertains to the website at www.cretaquarium.gr (the “Website”). We may from time-to-time revise this privacy policy, and the date of last revision will be available on this page, so please make sure that you check back periodically.

By visiting the Cretaquarium website and downloading the psaroneis app, you are acknowledging and accepting this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Psaroneis app after changes have been posted to the Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.

Our Policy towards Children's Privacy

Psaroneis application is committed to complying with all applicable laws and regulations regarding the collection, storage and use of personally identifiable information concerning children under the age of 13.

If you are a parent or guardian that has become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, you should contact us immediately by way of the contact details provided in the “Contacts” section. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personally identifiable information, we will delete such information from our system.

The HCMR maintains this website to allow free access to information about the activities and services of the wider scientific community. We try to retain these pieces of information updated and precise. We will try to correct any errors brought to our attention. In any case, the HCMR accepts no liability or culpability as far as the material in this website is concerned. This material relates to generic information and are addressed to specific circumstances not intend to report the situations of an individual or legal entities and are not intended to be complete or comprehensive. In particular passages and publications responsibility lies with the authors. The Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) accepts no liability for any error by negligence in the material presented on this site, or any linked sites.

Provided that the source is acknowledged, the reproduction of the websites can be performed, except where otherwise stated.

Where prior permission is required to reproduce or use text (proposals, programs, future ideas) and multimedia information (sound, images, software, etc ....), such permission shall cancel the above-mentioned general permission and presents clearly the restrictions on use.

Information Collection And Use

While using our psaroneis app, we may ask you to provide with certain personally identifiable information while sending a screenshot or email that can be used to contact or identify you. Depending on the information and/or services you request, you may be asked to provide your name, email address and other personal information. Once you provide your personal information, you are not anonymous to psaroneis app.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Why Choose Us?

Explore

Special tour for "little explorers”

An experiential and playful tour especially tailored for a group of small children.

Special tours

Explore the Aquarium in a journey to the unique underwater world of the Mediterranean.

Guided Tour

Children Parties

With carefully planned educational activities, tours specially designed for children and games, children enjoy themselves, explore, learn and their awareness is raised at the sea scenery of CretAquarium.

More to see:

Some of the educational programmes offered by CretAquarium are in line with the school curriculum, while others are adapted to the ages and level of pupils of all grades (primary and secondary education).

Educational Programs

If you are curious about the sea world of the Mediterranean, you may visit behind the scenes in an unseen side of the Aquarium where its daily operations take place.

Behind the Scenes

Armed with a lot of imagination and enhanced feeling of exploring, children explore the Aquarium in a journey to the unique underwater world of the Mediterranean

Special tours

Explore, learn and expand awareness about the sea scenery of CretAquarium.

Children Parties

Psaroneis Mobile App

Discover the Aquarium without missing a thing!

Sixty tanks, containing more than 2,000 marine organisms and…countless questions! How are fish and sharks fed? Where does the water of the tanks come from? How do animals reproduce? How are sea-turtles cared for?