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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is a natural history museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located on the campus of the University of British Columbia. Its of collections and exhibit space were first opened to the public on October 16, 2010; since then it has received about 30,000 visitors per year. Its collections include over two million specimens collected between the 1910s and the present, comprising the Cowan Tetrapod Collection, the Marine Invertebrate Collection, the Fossil Collection, the Herbarium, the Spencer Entomological Collection, and the Fish Collection. The collections focus in particular on the species of British Columbia, Yukon, and the Pacific Coast. The museum's most prominent display is a skeleton of a female blue whale buried in Tignish, Prince Edward Island, which is suspended over the ramp leading to the main collections. The current museum director is Eric Taylor. Activities run by the museum include storytimes and scientific workshops for children, tours of the collections and the laboratories of its associated Beaty Biodiversity Research Centre, public lectures on biodiversity topics, and film screenings. The Beaty Biodiversity Museum was listed as the "Best Collection of Weird Things in Drawers" in ''Georgia Straights "Best of Vancouver 2013" list. ==Location and access== The Beaty Biodiversity Museum and the Biodiversity Research Centre are located in the Beaty Biodiversity Centre at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The complex's address is 2212 Main Mall, Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia. Directly adjacent to the museum is the UBC Fisheries Centre which features an atrium display of skeletons of a minke whale, a killer whale, two Steller sea lions, and three Pacific white-sided dolphins. During the school year the museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm. Access to the public is provided via membership or admission fees; UBC students and faculty have free admission, as do teachers with a school ID. UBC also runs a Museums and Gardens Passport program, which grants access to Beaty, the UBC Museum of Anthropology, the UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research, and the Japanese Nitobe Memorial Garden.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=21 November 2013 )〕 The museum has an estimated 30,000 visitors per year.〔 Although 95% of the collection space is open to the public, a number of these items are kept in sealed cabinets to prevent degradation.〔Beaty Biodiversity Museum (pamphlet)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beaty Biodiversity Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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