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Beaty Biodiversity Museum

Museums & Culture · UBC · From $18

UBC's natural history museum puts more than 500 exhibits on display from a research collection of around two million specimens. A 26-metre blue whale skeleton suspended in the atrium is the centrepiece, alongside BC dinosaur trackways, fossils, and collections running from insects and birds to mammals and plants.

Place type

Museums & Culture

Area

UBC

Price

From $18 — Official Admission page daily rates (taxes included): Adult 19+ $18; Senior 65+ / Student with ID $15; Child and Youth 6–18 $10; Child under 6 free. Free general admission for self-identifying Indigenous Peoples and for UBC faculty, staff and students with a valid UBC card.

Address

2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

Hours

Open Tue–Sun

Accessibility

Step-free entry with button-operated automatic doors on both main doors; the collections level is reached by a ramp with a fitted handrail, with an adjacent-building elevator available with staff assistance. Accessible single-stall washrooms are on both levels, and one wheelchair is available to borrow free of charge (official Accessibility page).

Allow

1–2 hrs

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Source of record: Beaty Biodiversity Museum (official page) · Last reviewed 2026-11-03.