I read the page on the appropriate time to avoid the school field visit before I went. It showed that lunchtime was easy to pass through the exhibition. I visited the aquarium after the hurricane and this was my first time back. Lots of fish and things to see. There is a touch room where you can touch something. The underwater area is huge and there are big fish swimming everywhere. If you buy a joint ticket, aquarium or zoo or insect museum, you can save some money and if you don't use it that day, each ticket can be used for a year. Adjacent to the area there is plenty of paid parking. Just on the banks of the Mississippi River, so you can watch the big boats pass by.