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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum will be hosting a series
of preview events continuing Aug. 21, 2010 from 11am to 3pm.
We look forward to opening the museum with public and educational programming in the fall.

See the archived webcast of our
Biodiversity and Blue Whale talks from May 22nd, 2010.
Do you have photos from our events? Consider sharing them with us at our Flickr group.

UBC's rich biological collections are housed in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, a new public museum dedicated to enhancing the public's understanding and appreciation of biodiversity, and making the research conducted by the scientists of UBC's Biodiversity Research Centre more accessible to the public. The Museum and the Research Centre are housed side-by-side in the new Beaty Biodiversity Centre building.

The djavad mowafaghian foundation has made a contribution of $3 million to the new Djavad Mowafaghian Atrium, a two-storey glass gallery that will soon showcase the Beaty Biodiversity Museum’s flagship exhibit, the skeleton of a blue whale - the largest living animal. The exhibit and the Museum’s educational programming are expected to be a major draw for the region's schoolchildren. Read more >

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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum
University of British Columbia
2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC
CANADA V6T 1Z4

Phone: 604.827.4955

Media contact: Chris Balma
Phone: 604.822.5082
Email: balma@science.ubc.ca

The Biodiversity Research Centre is an academic unit composed of more than 50 internationally renowned scientists who are all dedicated to the study of biodiversity. Interdisciplinary working groups study the biological forces that produce and sustain biodiversity, as well as the forces that lead to extinction, and the local and global consequences of its loss. The new Beaty Biodiversity Centre building will become the home for both the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and the Biodiversity Research Centre.

Visit the Biodiversity Research Centre website