Beaty Biodiversity Museum
| Beaty Biodiversity Museum | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Address: | 2212 Main Mall Vancouver, BC, CANADA V6T 1Z4 |
| Building: | Beaty Biodiversity Centre |
| Hours | |
| Hours: | Wednesday to Sunday: 11:00am to 5:00pm Monday to Tuesday: Closed for research |
| Contact | |
| Phone: | 604.827.4955 |
| Website: | http://beatymuseum.ubc.ca |
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is a new natural history museum on the UBC Vancouver Campus. It is home to Canada's largest blue whale skeleton display.
Admission is $12 for adults, $7 for children, and free for UBC staff and students. The museum opened in the Fall of 2010.
Collections
- The Herbarium is home to over half a million specimens from around the world including vascular plants, bryophytes, algae, lichen, and fungi.
- The Spencer Entomological Collection has over 600,000 specimens of insects and other terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates.
- The Marine Invertebrate Collection houses a diverse array of animal specimens, featuring thousands of mollusk shells collected from different environments around the world.
- The Cowan Vertebrate Collection houses over 40,000 specimens of mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles.
- The Fish Collection contains over 800,000 preserved fish in jars as well as skeletons, fossils, x-ray images, and DNA samples.
- The Fossil Collection has over 20,000 fossils of from all over the world, from recent shells to ancient blue-green algae, the oldest evidence of life on Earth.
Location
2212 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, CANADA V6T 1Z4
Fax: (604) 822-2416
Email: info@beatymuseum.ubc.ca
