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Spring Break: Adaptation Exploration

Spring Break: Adaptation Exploration

Learn about some fascinating animal adaptations and combine your favourites to make your own super creature!

Pallid carrier snail, Xenophora pallidula. Photo by wikimedia user James St. John

Spring Break: Super Snails 

In this activity, learn all about the wondrous adaptations of carrier snails and cone snails. You can even take a look at our snail specimens and decorate your own snail craft!

Spring Break: Surprise Activity!

Spring Break: Surprise Activity!

Join us for a surprise activity hosted by our museum team!

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Spring Break: Mushroom Mural

Learn about all kinds of mushrooms and other fungi. From the edible to the deadly, and from decomposers to parasites, fungi come in many fantastic forms.

Spring Break: Window into Underwater Biodiversity

Spring Break: Window into Underwater Biodiversity

This activity gives you the opportunity to craft your own ‘window into underwater biodiversity’ to look through and take home.

Emperor penguin. Photo Credit: Bernard Spragg

Spring Break: Meet the Penguins

You’ll learn about warm and cold water penguins, and get up close to real penguin specimens under the whale!

Spring Break: Meet the (Plant) Press

Spring Break: Meet the (Plant) Press

Join Linda, the Herbarium’s  Collections Curator, to learn about the ways pressed plants are put together for science and art!

Spring Break: Biodiversity Trivia Challenge with Button-Making!

Spring Break: Biodiversity Trivia Challenge with Button-Making!

Explore the exhibits to write your own biodiversity museum trivia questions to test other visitors and create a custom biodiversity badge to wear proudly and take home.

Anna's hummingbird, Calypte anna. Photo by Sunny Zhang

Spring Break: Birds on Campus

Let’s explore the green space around the museum and meet some new friends.

Beaty Nocturnal: Pressed Plants – Making a Herbarium

Beaty Nocturnal: Pressed Plants – Making a Herbarium

The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is pleased to invite you to attend the book launch of an amazing new book Pressed Plants, Making a Herbarium by Linda PJ (Jennings) Lipsen, Curator of the UBC Beaty Biodiversity Museum Herbarium.