#shromp week 2024

[montereybayaquarium]

Make a great first shrimpression with these shrimpeccable looks 🦐✨

Whether you're shrimply fabulous or krilling it on the runway, these shrimpspired outfits will have you feeling oh-so-shellfishly chic! 🦐✨

[thedailydescent]

The dock shrimp at my aquarium have all been standing in configuration like this a lot recently. What are they always staring at?

This tiny guy on the other side!

Also, here is one watching from on top on top of a crab. Just because.

[you-got-shrimped]

what is shrimp week

Shrimp week is something Monterey Bay Aquarium is doing to showcase shrimp! It's over now, but it was from the 10th to the 16th :)

[montereybayaquarium]

Lights, camera, action! ✨🎥🎬

Let’s shellebrate the crustacean sensations of the stage and sea-lver screen with these shrimply sublime parody musical posters.

(p.s. If you donate $20 to our Shrimp Week fundraiser, you’ll receive access to high-quality versions of these posters to download and print yourselves. Put them up in your classroom! Dorm! House! Office! Bathroom?) Donate today!

[montereybayaquarium]

Meet the shrimply stunning (and literally striking) mantis shrimp! This tiny yet dazzling marine crustacean defies conventional classification and breaks the mold in more ways than one.

Learn more!

[montereybayaquarium]

The prawn of a new day is rising… 🦐 Shrimp Week is back, March 10-16! 🦐

We’ll be shellebrating across our channels all week long, but for some ✨extra✨ shrimp in your pocket, be shore to sign up for Shrimp Week texts!

You can also send the word SHRIMPYTUM to 54159 to receive shrimpspired text messages all week long.  It’d be shrimply prawnderful if you did!

[montereybayaquarium]

No one is safe from shrimp facts during shrimp week! 🦐

[montereybayaquarium]

Show your appreci-ocean for all shromps, shramps, and shrumps with a shrimp-sized donation to the Aquarium!

Your support makes a meaningful shrimpact on our mission to inspire conservation of the ocean—where shrimp live!

Whether it’s as small as a fairy shrimp or as large as a giant prawn, your donation will earn you a shrimp-spired gift from us! From digital downloads to membership benefits (to a personalized message from our favorite shell-ebrity personal trainer!), there’s an ocean of options for you to explore.

Visit our Tiltify page to learn more, and check back throughout the week as new rewards are added!

[montereybayaquarium]

It’s time for Zodiac signs as shrimp (and other close shrimp-like relatives)! 🦐✨

🌜☀️✨ Part 2 ✨ ☀️🌛

Sea the rest in 🌜☀️✨ Part 1! ✨ ☀️🌛

Thanks to our fronds at NOAA for the image of the goblin shrimp!

[montereybayaquarium]

It’s time for Zodiac signs as shrimp (and other close shrimp-like relatives)! 🦐✨

🌜☀️✨ Part 1 ✨ ☀️🌛

Sea the rest in 🌜☀️✨ Part 2! ✨ ☀️🌛

Thanks to our fronds @mbari-blog for the image of the transparent shrimp! (which is technically an amphipod, but shhhhhh)

[montereybayaquarium]

It’s time to raise the curtain on Shrimp Week! 🦐 🎉

Critics are already raving about the most prawnderful week of the year!

Check out our website for even more shrimpage along with previous years’ highlights.

Let’s get the show started!! 🦐🦐🦐🦐🦐

[montereybayaquarium]

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Shrimp Edition! 🦐

How do you get from Kevin Bacon to shrimp? 🤔 Join us as we shellebrate the interconnectedness of our world, from the silver screen to the shimmering seas. 

[montereybayaquarium]

And that’s all, folks! It’s time to close the curtain on this year’s Shrimp Week! We laughed, we cried, and we shorely raised some shell.

We appreciate you for riding this wild wave with us during a week of unbridled (and unhinged) joy for our tiny crustacean sensations. 

✨You’re shrimply the best!✨

[montereybayaquarium]

2 Hours of Cleaner Shrimp to Relax/Study | Lofi Hip Hop | Monterey Bay Aquarium Krill Waves Radio

🦐🎶We shrimply can't resist sharing our latest cleaner shrimp Krill Waves Radio with you! 🎶🦐 Dive into 2 hours of cleaner shrimps vibing, cleaning, and doing their shrimpy thing —perfect for unwinding, studying, or just letting your mind drift.

🎧Tune in to the crustacean station and let it wash over you like a gentle tide!

[montereybayaquarium]

Shellebrate good brine come on! It's Shrimp Week!! 🎉🦐

[montereybayaquarium]

Get Ready With Us - Shrimp Week edition! 

Join the Aquarium crew for a prawnderful GRWU livestream on Thursday, Mar. 7 at 3 p.m., where we’ll be crafting, chatting, and shrimpin’ around. 🦐

Sea you on Twitch or over on our YouTube channel 💙