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Latest Updates on the Whale:
See the whale! Join us on May 22, 2010 for a celebration of the International Day of Biological Diversity. More details >
May 13, 2010
The Beaty Biodiversity Centre was oficially opened yesterday. Visit the museum for a series of free summer previews in advance of our museum opening this fall.
Left-right: Blue Whale Project leader Andrew Trites, skeleton articulator Mike deRoos, assistant articulator and project manager Michi Main, Sue Kennedy from the UBC Science Development Office, and Beaty Biodiversity Museum director Wayne Maddison.
April 7, 2010
It's here! The main parts of the skeleton are now in the Museum. Over the next few weeks, the team will assemble and suspend the blue whale in the atrium.
Left: George Hudson, Jesse McBeath, and Bob deRoos (left to right) move in the tail section of the vertebrae.
Right: Mike deRoos (left) and Andrew Trites (in green) help maneuver the huge skull into the Museum.
Keep up with the latest installation photos on the Beaty Museum's Flickr page.
April 2, 2010
It's arriving! Braced for transport, the flippers arrived at the loading bay of the Beaty Biodiversity Centre. Along with other segments of the skeleton, the flippers will undergo a 3-D computer scanning process prior to being installed.
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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum will soon be home to a 26 metre long articulated skeleton of a blue whale.
The skeleton from a blue whale that beached on the coast of PEI has made a 6000 km journey across Canada,
to become a special exhibit in the Museum’s glass atrium, and a symbol of the vast biological wealth under our stewardship.
PEI is making this magnificent specimen available to educate and inspire Canadians about biodiversity. In doing so, they are
strengthening ties between the coastal provinces of British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, and helping to draw attention to the issues we
share about biodiversity and marine conservation.
Blue whales are the largest animals that have ever lived on earth. Learn more about blue whale biology.
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