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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver’s natural history museum, dedicated to creating a shared sense of community and wonder. The museum puts UBC's natural history collections, with more than two million specimens, on public view for the first time. Among our treasures are a 26-metre-long blue whale skeleton suspended in the Djavad Mowafaghian Atrium, the third-largest fish collection in the nation, and myriad fossils, shells, insects, fungi, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and plants from around British Columbia and the world.Come visit us - we’re located at 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC. You can find more info at beatymuseum.ubc.ca |
FestEVOLVE 2014: Celebrating the Evolution of Life!
It’s mid-February, and the Beaty Biodiversity Museum loves to celebrate with flowers, stuffed animals, sexuality, and lots of sweets. Our preparations aren’t for Valentine’s Day, but a quirkier occasion: Darwin Day.
Wednesday, February 12 marks what would have been the 205th birthday of Charles Darwin, celebrated naturalist and the well-known father of evolution. Our FestEVOLVE celebrations from February 12-23 include awesome guest speakers, evolution activities, tours of the neighboring Pacific Museum of Earth, and the incredibly popular “Bake a Cake for Darwin” contest.
Where else in Vancouver can you share and eat evolution cakes?
This year, Darwin is sharing the spotlight with Alfred Russel Wallace, a contemporary of Darwin and an unsung hero of evolutionary theory. Wallace is the father of modern biogeography, too. This January, he would have turned 191.
Pull out your Malay Archipelago platters and barnacle-shaped cookie-cutters, and head down to the Beaty Biodiversity Museum for some incredibly diverse cakes. Not up to baking this year? Bring a plate and fork to join the food chain!
Our exciting line-up of FestEVOLVE events include:
Wednesday, February 12
Bake a cake for Charles Darwin or Alfred Russel Wallace | 5:00 p.m.
Please note: Set up can start as early as 4:00 p.m. All of the cakes are prepared by volunteers; therefore, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum has no control over and takes no responsibility for taste, contents, or food-safe handling procedures.
Saturday, February 15
Alfred Russel Wallace: a journey into adventure, discovery, and evolution with Greg Bole | Talk | 1:00 p.m.
A “Wallace Line” of the north? British Columbia as a centre for the study of bird diversification with Darren Irwin | Talk | 3:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 22
65 million years of pre-history: The record of dinosaurs from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary to the Upper Cretaceous of the Peace Region of British Columbia with Rich McCrea and Lisa Buckley | Talk | 1:00 p.m.
Fossil Road Show | 2:00 p.m.
Bring a few of your favourite, unidentified, spectacular, or interesting fossils and rocks for show-and-tell with the experts and other fossil enthusiasts.
Tumbler Ridge Aspiring Geopark and the Potential for Other Global Geopark Proposals in British Columbia with Charles Helm | Talk | 3:00 p.m.
Click here for the full FestEVOLVE schedule and information on the Beaty Biodiversity Museum.
