Online Tours, Field Trips, Beaty Boxes and more!
Online Tours, Field Trips, Beaty Boxes and more!
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Looking ahead! 
We are enjoying brighter mornings and longer days and thinking about how the year will unfold. As we look forward to changing seasons it may be time to think about field trips. We have in-museum school programs for Kindergarten to Secondary and beyond. If you can’t come in person, there are many ways to bring the museum experience to your classroom with online exhibits, FREE downloadable resources, outreach kits, and science videos featuring current UBC researchers.
Visit the museum without leaving your classroom! 
If costs and logistics are make a trip to UBC a challenge, consider an Online Museum Tour (Grades K-12+, Ages 5+).
Online tours to explore the six collections that make up the Museum: Tetrapods, Marine Invertebrates, Herbarium, Entomology, Fish, and Fossils.
Bring real museum specimens into your classroom with Beaty Boxes. 
Our award-winning Beaty Boxes are outreach kits with touchable specimens, information about UBC research scientists, and hands-on activities that explore biodiversity. From Forest ecosystems to Ancient Life, select one of six themed Beaty Boxes for your classroom, learn more about each box here.
Check our selection of tours & programs 
This program looks at the diversity of living things and ways of describing and organizing the world around us.
A curriculum-based program exploring adaptations and introducing students to the theory of evolution through natural selection.
This program focuses on exploring different approaches to sustainability in biodiversity, meeting our needs and incorporating many perspectives.
Students will work in groups to unravel the history of organisms we see today, using an inquiry-based approach to learning.
Online tours to explore the six collections that make up the Museum: Tetrapods, Marine Invertebrates, Herbarium, Entomology, Fish, and Fossils.
Explore the museum’s six collections at your own pace and with your own focus. Self-led visits are available throughout the year on any day the museum is open.
Spring Break 2026
March 17-29, 2026 | Celebrating the Collections!
We are planning an exciting spring break this year. This year we are focused on Celebrating the Collections! Families are invited to get to know our research collections. We will have curated sets of scavenger hunts and colouring sheets, along with themed hands-on activities and half-hour highlights each day. Keep an eye on our website for more details coming soon.
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver's natural history museum, dedicated to building greater understanding, and a shared sense of community and wonder, around biodiversity. Follow us on our social media channels!
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