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A visitor-created exhibit label about a turtle is posted beside a museum display with a hawksbill sea turtle.

Spring Break: Create a Museum Label!

With the help of museum staff and volunteers, you’ll get to write, draw, and display your own creations in the museum for everyone to enjoy!

A child in a red sweatshirt sketches on an easel. He is looking at a taxidermied common loon.

Spring Break: Drawing Studio

Get inspired to draw from amazing museum specimens with the help of Derek, the Manager of Exhibitions and the illustrator behind many exhibits in the museum.

A visitor sketches a butterfly in a sketchbook.

Spring Break: Adaptation Exploration

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

A round, beige, carrier snail that has smaller beige shells of different shapes and sizes attached to it's shell margins

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!

A young boy in a red shirt gazes upwards at the blue whale skeleton

Spring Break: Surprise Activity!

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

Spring Break: Mushroom Mural

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.

Three paper-plate crafts. Each has been turned into a round "window" where you can see different biodiversity images and illustrations.

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.

A close up of an Emperor Penguin's face, it has a yellow patch behind the eye, on the bottom of the bill, and the top of the chest.

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!

A scan of a herbarium press of riparian lupine, Lupinus rivularis.

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!

An adult and child read the "Baleen or Teeth" information panel at the whale station.

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.