Beaty Museum Members' Event: Beaty Box Sneak Peek
Date and time
Location
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
2212 Main Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 CanadaDescription
Beaty Boxes are travel-ready outreach kits that connect with the Beaty Biodiversity Museum’s unique biological collections. Launched in September 2016, these kits contain touchable specimens, information about UBC scientists, and hands-on activities that explore biodiversity. Not limited to classroom use; Beaty Boxes have been used by libraries, community groups, art galleries, and local nature clubs, reaching thousands more children, teens and adults per year than the physical museum.
This is your chance to join us as we unveil our newest outreach kit – the ‘Forest’ Beaty Box, focused on the forest ecosystem of the pacific Northwest. Be one of the first to see, touch and explore this rich collection and learn how salmon, black bears, and cedar play a key role in this fascinating ecosystem. Drop in throughout the hour to learn more about the Beaty Box program and the specimens inside from one of our museum interpreters.
This event takes place in Beaty Biodiversity Museum's Niche Café, behind the Admissions area. Light snacks will be provided. Bring your own lunch and stay for the Way Cool lecture in the afternoon, starting at 1:00 pm.
A Beaty Biodiversity Museum membership means joining and supporting a lively community of people inspired by biodiversity, engaged with the natural world, and dedicated to conservation. Along with year-round admission to the museum and additional benefits, all Beaty Museum memberships include access to members-only special events.
Organized by
Fall in love with the diversity of life as you explore 20,000 square feet of exhibits, visit our 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.Through a combination of exhibits, hands-on activities, educators’ resources, public presentations, and community and cultural engagement, we are working to increase understanding of the interconnectedness of all life on Earth. Just as important, we connect the world-renowned scientists at the adjacent Biodiversity Research Centre with the public. This unique combination of world-class, university-based research and beautiful, compelling exhibits makes the research conducted by UBC scientists more accessible and more relevant to the public.