Welcome

The SOSF Shark Education Centre is an attraction not to be missed. It boasts a carefully selected collection of state-of-the-art exhibits that ensures that children and adults are able to learn through play and exploration, with each of their different senses engaged. This facilitates a truly immersive and stimulating educational experience while they are having fun.

What we do

We connect the public to the marine environment through experiential education programmes that focus on sharks and local marine ecosystems in order to nurture ocean awareness and environmentally responsible actions.

Contact us

Monday – Thursday: 14h00 – 16h00

Weekends and public holidays: CLOSED

Address and directions
29 Main Rd, Kalk Bay
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Tel: +27 (0)21 788 6694

Latest centre news
A year of reflection
By Wisaal Osman, 30th April 2019
Last year the Shark Education Centre developed a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) system to measure its social and environmental impact. We built a framework to look at short-, mid- and long-term outcomes and assigned indicators for each of these outcomes which will help us reach our desired educational impact…
2018 visitor numbers
By Claire Metcalf, 15th April 2019
We took a look back at 2018 and how many people came to visit us at the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Education Centre.  We are so pleased to see how many school children and members of the public had the opportunity to come and see what we offer here…
Easter egg(case) hunting on the rocky shore
By Clova Mabin, 9th April 2019
Instead of searching your garden for Easter eggs this year, how about searching for real eggs? I don’t mean the foil wrapped, delicious chocolate ones or even the eggs laid by hens, the eggs I’m referring to actually come from underwater creatures, such as sharks, skates and chimaeras. The mother…
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