Beaty Biodiversity Museum

Beaty Biodiversity Museum is at 2212 Main Mall on the University of British Columbia campus. This natural history museum exhibits more than 2 million specimens divided among six collections: the Cowan Tetrapod Collection, The Herbarium, the Spencer Entomological Collection, the Fish Collection, the Marine Invertebrate Collection and the Fossil Collection. A highlight is Canada's largest blue whale skeleton, which is suspended in the museum's two-story glass atrium.

Note: Pay parking is available at the Health Sciences Parkade, one block south across East Mall, and near the UBC Bookstore.

Food is available. Time: Allow 1 hour, 30 minutes minimum.