Artist Tour: Vanishing by Christine Fitzgerald
Join photo-based artist Christine Fitzgerald for a walk through Vanishing, an exhibition of new images of bird eggs and nests from historical museum collections paired with specimens from the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.
Beaty Nocturnal: Vanishing
Join us for a panel discussion about innovative approaches to creative collaboration across disciplines and how activating aesthetic reconsideration of scientific collections addresses our present moment of ecological precarity.
Beaty Nocturnal: Fossils with Dr. Bruce Archibald
How did insects respond to the diversification of flowering plants? Curator of the Beaty fossil collection paleontologist Dr. Bruce Archibald talks about the big picture of one very important group in particular!
Fossils | Spring Break 2024
Today our focus is on fossils, the preserved remains or traces of organisms.
Fishes | Spring Break 2024
Fishes range from tiny little sardines to top predators like great white sharks; and from scary-looking monkfish to elegant angelfish!
Entomology | Spring Break 2024
Today, we are focusing on insects and other arthropod relatives. Use magnifying glasses to look up close, identify and classify major groups of insects, and create your own insect comic strip or storyboard!
Marine Invertebrates | Spring Break 2024
“Invertebrate” means without a backbone, and this includes creatures like snails, octopuses, sea stars, and more!
Tetrapods | Spring Break 2024
Today we will be highlighting birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians, the four groups of vertebrates in the Cowan Tetrapod Collection.
Herbarium: Fungi & Lichen | Spring Break 2024
Today we are focusing on Lichen and Fungi – two types of organisms that are kept in the herbarium but are not plants!
Herbarium: Plants & Algae | Spring Break 2024
Meet mosses, find a fern, touch a tree, see a seaweed, and fawn over flowers!