The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is a natural history museum in Vancouver, British Columbia,Canada. Its collections include over two million specimens, including a 25-metre skeleton of a female blue whale buried in Tignish, Prince Edward Island.[1]
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum and the Biodiversity Research Centre are located in the Beaty Biodiversity Centre, University of British Columbia, 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver.
The museum opened to the public on October 16, 2010.[2] The museum is named after Ross and Trisha Beaty, UBC alumni who donated funding.[3]
The museum houses a collection of more than 2 million specimens, some collected as early as the 1910s.[4]
(From Wikipedia, May 30th, 2012)