Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum features an extensive collection of plants, insects, shells, fossils, fish, terrestrial vertebrates, and marine invertebrates showcased in taxidermy and fossilized forms.
Visitor's of all ages will learn a lot from the diverse lifeforms from both British Columbia and around the world.
Over 500 natural history exhibits organized into 6 collections showcase the great diversity of life on our planet. The museum actual houses over 2 million specimens for research.
Notable Exhibits include the Blue Whale display, Dinosaur Trackways and the Timeline Exhibit.
The The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is located on the main campus of the University of British Columbia. It is easy to get to on public transit as many buses go to UBC. From downtown Vancouver you can take the #44 express bus from Burrard Station. From the Broadway-City Hall Station on the Canada Line or Commercial Station on the Expo or Millennium Line you can take the 99 B-line express bus.
Facts For Your Visit
Fee: YesBeaty Biodiversity Museum Hours:
Opening hours may differ on holidays
- Monday: Closed
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Address: Vancouver Campus, 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Phone: (604) 827-4955
Official Website: Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Beaty Biodiversity Museum Reviews
Rated out of 5
10/10 world class biological natural history museum, can easily spend several days here. Young families, admire the blue whale, then go straight to the very back for gentle touching gallery where volunteers would be happy to bring out more to fascinate. Free extended hours entry here every last Thurs of month: check their official calendar first. Please note UBC parking is still extremely expensive despite the museum being free. Family memberships available.
D B - a month ago
House of Bones, Bugs, and Mysterious Jars! I'm from the US and really enjoyed the way specimens were displayed in cabinets with drawers you can open to discover more. The cabinets alternated windows at adult eye level and kid eye level. The timelines are helpful for thinking about how long Earth's history is compared to human history. There is a room where you can touch specimens and look more closely at some items.
Budget tip - If you go to the Museum of Anthropology on the same day, you get a discount on this museum. You can easily see one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Connie Steel - 3 months ago
Pretty nice place to visit. So many animal and plant skeletons. It was neat! Went with our toddler who was a little s are of the skeletons. We had some food at the UBC restaurants, then went to Spanish banks beach and went back home. It was a nice day out overall.
pratyusha mungara - 2 months ago
It was awesome! Right in the beginning you have this massive blue whale skeleton. Then you have many many other animals to see, touch, analyze, draw and much more. The kids had so much fun!
Nathalia Assunçao - 5 months ago
Absolutely loved this place. Their collection was significantly more extensive than expected. What I liked the most was that you can open some of the drawer and touch some of the specimens.
Nikolett M - 3 months ago
Directions
How to get to Beaty Biodiversity Museum by SkyTrain
Nearest SkyTrain Line(s): Canada Line, Expo
Nearest SkyTrain Station(s): Burrard, Broadway-City Hall
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