Adventures in Mountmaking: Building the Backyard Case
One of our favourite mounting projects at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum: preparing specimens and creating mounts for case displays in a 2014 feature exhibit called Backyard Biodiversity!
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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 go
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 al
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