The museum is located within the Borneo Marine Research Institute Complex, just beside the Sepanggar Bay are. The Aquarium and Marine Museum has the best aquarium facilities in the whole of Borneo Island. Among the facilities available at the museum are the live open water reef exhibition centre, free standing exhibition tanks, live shallow reef exhibition, mangrove walk, contemporary Marine and Maritime Museum, Multimedia Interactive Information Kiosk as well as a Sipadan deep dive diorama.