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Beaty Biodiversity Museum

Beaty Biodiversity Museum

2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia
http://www.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver’s natural history museum, dedicated to creating a shared sense of community and wonder.
Fall in love with the diversity of life as you explore 20,000 square feet of exhibits, visit the Allan Yap Teaching Lab, and stare through the jaws of the largest creature ever to live on Earth—the blue whale.
The museum puts UBC's natural history collections, with more than two million specimens, on public view for the first time. Among our treasures are a 26-metre-long blue whale skeleton suspended in the Djavad Mowafaghian Atrium, the third-largest fish collection in the nation, and myriad fossils, shells, insects, fungi, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants from around British Columbia and the world.

Photo Credit: Photo by Shannon Kraichy

Text Credit: Site description from http://www.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/

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  • Explore150 photoSpot Snapshot/ juliajachi/ Jun 14, 2017
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    guestBook Guestbook/ Explore150 Team/ Dec 16, 2013

    While visiting the museum, I was reminded again how insignificant the human species, Homo sapiens, really is compared to the age of the Earth! I was walking along the time scale at the museum and it is amazing how little time we have been on this planet, and all that we have done, for better or for worse.

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Big Blue, the blue whale skeleton hanging in the Djavad Mowafaghian atrium, was buried for two decades in P.E.I. before it was brought to the west coast for display.

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Big Blue, the blue whale skeleton hanging in the Djavad Mowafaghian atrium, was buried for two decades in P.E.I. before it was brought to the west coast for display.

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NEWS FEED
  • Explore150 photoSpot Snapshot/ juliajachi/ Jun 14, 2017
  • Homo sapiens
    guestBook Guestbook/ Explore150 Team/ Dec 16, 2013

    While visiting the museum, I was reminded again how insignificant the human species, Homo sapiens, really is compared to the age of the Earth! I was walking along the time scale at the museum and it is amazing how little time we have been on this planet, and all that we have done, for better or for worse.

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver’s natural history museum, dedicated to creating a shared sense of community and wonder.
Fall in love with the diversity of life as you explore 20,000 square feet of exhibits, visit the Allan Yap Teaching Lab, and stare through the jaws of the largest creature ever to live on Earth—the blue whale.
The museum puts UBC's natural history collections, with more than two million specimens, on public view for the first time. Among our treasures are a 26-metre-long blue whale skeleton suspended in the Djavad Mowafaghian Atrium, the third-largest fish collection in the nation, and myriad fossils, shells, insects, fungi, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants from around British Columbia and the world.

2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia
http://www.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/
@beatymuseum
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Photo: Photo by Shannon Kraichy

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