News & Stories

Happy Holidays from the Beaty Biodiversity Museum team! Please check in with our events calendar and daily schedule to see what’s going on at the museum over the holidays.

During this year’s foray a small group of bryologists went to Haida Gwaii.

As a student, I know the importance of a neatly organized desk. It’s where I work, eat, (and sometimes fall asleep). I’ll admit, sometimes I find some long lost treasures while cleaning out my desk While working on the Seashore Beaty Box, I discovered

This fall, we are offering six new guided tour options, and a free audio tour!

Beaty Boxes are a valuable tool for educators to help students explore biodiversity according to their own learning style.

Over 140 people attended the opening of our new Dinosaur Trackways exhibit on Thursday, March 29.

One of the most interesting things I found when I first started as curator, was to realize that we did not have a full inventory of our collection! We know we have over 700,000 specimens so it’s not an easy task to find gaps in our collections. Imagine that, not knowing what you have in your museum collection.

During Spring Break, join the Beaty Biodiversity Museum every day at 12:00 pm for a different hands-on activity, brought to you by volunteers, staff, curators, and special guests!

A new phone app makes identifying seaweed easier than ever before.

The Fraser River’s iconic sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), was a major focus of conservation status assessments at the recent Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) in Ottawa November 26 – December 1.