Spring Break at the Beaty Museum

Beaty Biodiversity Centre 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join us this Spring Break for a different activity every day, brought to you by volunteers, staff, curators, and special guests! From identification tips & tricks to art, games, crafts, and hands-on activities, you’ll be a biodiversity pro in no time.

Special Tour with Artist Sarah Ronald: Disrupting Wild Echoes

Beaty Biodiversity Centre 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join Sarah Ronald, the artist of the new exhibition Disrupting Wild Echoes opening on March 17, 2022, at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Sarah will welcome visitors and take them for a special walk-through of the exhibition, explaining each section and answering questions.

Digital Landscapes for Indigenous Learning – September 15, 2022

Online/Virtual Event

The Sturgeon Harpoon Knowledge Web exhibit grew out of an extended collaboration between Musqueam and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum. The exhibit centers on Knowledge Keeper Morgan Guerin’s making of a sturgeon harpoon, and Musqueam Archivist Jason Woolman’s Knowledge Web linking all the organisms, tools, and technologies that go into the making of the harpoon and […]

Free

Nocturnal: Preventing Extinctions – An evening with Island Conservation

Beaty Biodiversity Centre 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Hosted by Penny Becker, Chad Hanson, and Andrew S. Wright! Preventing Extinctions: Architecting the Accretocene is an exhibit on habitat restoration and rewilding that has been a decade in the making. This exhibit celebrates the successes that Island Conservation has had across the world in saving species from extinction on remote islands. The Beaty’s Nocturnal […]

Free

On the Origin of Modern Species – Biodiversity Lecture Series

Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre 6163 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Why are there so many species on earth? Do they evolve by natural selection as Darwin claimed? How do they evolve, persist, and go extinct? Can humans create new species? Biology has come a long way since Darwin, and he would be astonished at some of the answers to these questions. Dr. Dolph Schluter will […]

Free

Beaty Nocturnal – Drift: from the forest to the sea

Beaty Biodiversity Centre 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join us for a special Beaty Nocturnal with Bettina Harvey, the artist behind the current feature exhibition, Drift: from the forest to the sea. Bettina will talk about her artistic journey, as well as the role of citizen scientists in monitoring biodiversity, and environmental grief and resilience. The talk will be followed by a panel discussion with artists and […]

Free

UTown@UBC Nature Club: Vascular Plants

Beaty Biodiversity Centre 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This event is part of the 2023 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 2–9, 2023. Plants like trees, shrubs, flowers, and ferns are known as vascular plants, which means they have inner structures that transport water, sugar, and nutrients around their bodies. Learn about new and familiar plants while we explore different groups and their […]

Artist Talk – Bettina Matzkuhn presents Meteobotany

Beaty Biodiversity Centre 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join Bettina Matzkuhn, the multimedia artist behind Meteobotany, at the next Beaty Biodiversity Museum Nocturnal on October 19th, 2023. Bettina will talk about the process of making her textile works featuring embroidered lichen specimens over BC weather patterns, including iteration and experimentation to combine a range of materials with a scientific and creative perspective. Admission by […]

Free