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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver’s natural history museum, dedicated to creating a shared sense of community and wonder. 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. Come visit us at 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC. You can find more info at beatymuseum.ubc.ca or sign up for our e-newsletter. |
Birding Bonanza
March 10 - May 25, 2012
Discover the amazingly diverse lives of birds! View local birds like never before through displays and activities of bird specimens from our exclusive behind-the-scenes collections. Special programming will include hands-on activities with real bird specimens, birding activities and lessons, museum tours, puppet shows, scavenger hunts, crafts and more.
- Beak to Beak Birding - Atrium
Come face to face with birds that normally play "hard to get"! In this activity, visitors will use bird guides to identify amazing specimens of bird species from across North America.
- Bird is the Word - Discovery Lab
From baby birds to adults and from feathers and wings to beaks and feet, this interactive station will allow you to explore amazing bird specimens and participate in hands-on activities and games.
- Becoming Birds - Family Area
At this craft station, create your very own bird headband to wear home. As they design their birds and assemble their crafts, kids will have the opportunity to learn about how different bird body parts give us clues about where birds live and how they survive.
- Birding for Beginners - Daily, 12:45pm
Do you like birds, but don't know how to identify them? Join us for this daily activity that explores the basics of birdwatching and takes you outside to practice your new skills and see how many birds you can spot!
- Puppet Show: Birds of the Forest - Weekends, 11am.
Jacky wants to build a log house in the forest so that she can be closer to her favourite animals – birds! Help Jacky figure out which trees she should (and shouldn't) cut down for her home.
- Birding Bonanza Scavenger Hunt
How are birds connected with the rest of biodiversity? As you explore the museum, follow the clues below to find the organisms that share a connection with birds. Scavenger hunt sheets will be handed out at admissions upon entry.
- Collections Activity: "Turkey Trivia"
Aside from being a favourite holiday meal, turkeys are fascinating birds that live fascinating lives! Test your turkey knowledge & learn more about these amazing, and often surprising, animals.
Interaction
A photography exhibition exploring diverse interactions between organisms, the environment, and us
March 6 - May 6, 2012
Predator and prey, pollinator and plant, organism and habitat, plant and sunlight, subject and photographer - these are just a few of the countless interactions that happen all around us. Some you can see, but most are too fast, too slow, too global, or too hidden for us to notice. This exhibition highlights these interactions and allows us to explore them in depth. Images as varied as the split-second grab of a trout by an osprey and the pattern left behind by a leafminer larva as it eats its way through aspen leaves are captured and their details examined.
Scott Linstead, a wildlife photographer, and Daniel Mosquin, from the UBC Botanical Garden, share a selection of photographs that are inspired by these interactions in nature.
Scott Linstead is an internationally published, freelance wildlife photographer/writer. His 2010 book, Decisive Moments: Creating Iconic Imagery, was written for both the nature lover and the photographer, and shares some of the challenges and techniques used to capture his dynamic and impactful photographs.
Daniel Mosquin has extensively photographed throughout Western North America. He is the Research Manager at UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, where he is also the editor of their 'Botany Photo of the Day' blog that publishes photographs and write-ups under the adage “In science, beauty. In beauty, science. Daily.”
