A huge blue whale skeleton
Housed in a deceiving small building, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum is home to a large cavernous underground exhibition area – in part to prevent direct sunlight from its collections and in part to allow for more open space on ground level. Its flagship exhibit is of course the huge blue whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling, it is the largest on display in Canada.
I must’ve walked through the museum in reverse order because I started off at the moose and jaguar area and ended in the permian period. Just like the Museum of Anthropology, there are dozens of drawers underneath glass cases for visitors to explore. My favorite exhibit to see isn’t the blue whale though, it is the roving educational exhibits that allow visitors to touch a real preserved animal. This time, I got to touch the shell of a soft shell turtle.
Long corridors and a labyrinths of exhibits
