10th Anniversary Memory Book
Celebrate our 10th anniversary with us by sharing your memories of the museum!
Adventures in Mountmaking: Textile Mounts
Mount-maker Lesha Koop talks about her experience with textile mounts at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum!
BioBlitz: ‘Pandemic’ Insects
‘BioBlitz’ is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. Groups of scientists, naturalists and volunteers conduct an intensive field study over a continuous time period with the goal of getting the public interested in biodiversity. Read more here! During the Covid-19 physical distancing […]
Beaty@Home Live
Join us live every Wednesday at 1:00 pm for livestream activities!
Takuji Usui
Takuji Usui describes his research on investigating the way in which climate change affects species geographical distribution.
Adventures in Mountmaking: Beaty Boxes
I’ve been making museum mounts for over ten years. Most of that time I’ve spent working at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, the remainder at the Museum of Anthropology. Since I often get asked what a mountmaker is, I’ll describe it! I custom fabricate all kinds of supports for specimens or objects on display. For example, […]
Beaty@Home: Stay Connected Online
Until we can welcome you back in person, here are just a few ways that you connect and learn online with us and experience the Beaty@Home.
Butterfly Origami
Fold butterflies out of paper and bring nature indoors! Watch the video and follow the step-by-step to create your own butterfly origami.
Create your own Blue Whale Easter Egg!
Spend 5 minutes, use some non-toxic markers and a hard-boiled egg to make a blue whale. Be creative with drawing on a 3D-surface. If you would like to see how we made ours, please see the step-by-step below! Tips: Remember a blowhole on the top, so it could breathe. Add the flippers on the sides—they […]
Jasmine Lai
Researchers Revealed is an exciting new series profiling the research performed in UBC’s Biodiversity Research Centre. The series looks at new ways in which researchers harness technology to study the natural world in ways that were not possible before. Jasmine Lai describes the work she does as a technician at both the UBC Herbarium and in […]