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Animal Magnetism: Attraction Through Fashion

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver’s only natural history museum, dedicated to creating a shared sense of community and wonder.

Beaty Biodiversity Museum The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver’s only 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 - we’re located at 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC. You can find more info at beatymuseum.ubc.ca

On March 22, 2013, fashion historian Ivan Sayers gave an artist talk on the use of animal products in historical western fashion and featured items from the collections of Ivan Sayers and Claus Jahnke. For people who love fashion but have missed the presentation, a video is available on the Beaty Biodiversity Museum's channel on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsxjGXBqdDUO2t1zfwcR8sg

If you like Ivan's talk, he will be hosting the final two INVOKING VENUS talks:

Note: All talks are included with museum admission or membership. Please click on the titles for more information and to reserve a seat. Space is limited.

For more information on INVOKING VENUS, Feathers and Fashion, click here.