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!
Join us for a surprise activity hosted by our museum team!
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
This activity gives you the opportunity to craft your own ‘window into underwater biodiversity’ to look through and take home.
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
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!
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.
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
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.
Biodiversity Lecture Series with Dolph Schluter
Why are there so many species on earth? How do new species form? How do they evolve, persist, and how quickly do they go extinct? Join us for this fascinating talk with Dr. Dolph Schluter.