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Arts & Culture
Stand Beneath the Blue Whale at the Beaty
Canada's largest blue whale skeleton hangs over the entrance ramp, just in case you needed a conversation starter.
Arts & Culture
Canada's largest blue whale skeleton hangs over the entrance ramp, just in case you needed a conversation starter.
Before you can say hello, there is an 85-foot blue whale skeleton hanging over the entrance ramp, and both of you will stop talking for a moment, which is, statistically, a genuinely lovely way to start a date. The Beaty Biodiversity Museum fits two million specimens into one bright UBC hall: drawers of beetles, jars of deep-sea oddities, fossils, and a fair amount of taxidermy giving you side-eye from glass cases. It rewards the curious and the slightly morbid in roughly equal measure, and that ratio turns out to be very useful information about who you are on a date with. Beaty Nocturnal runs on the third Thursday of each month, by-donation in the evening, and afterward you can walk it off through the UBC gardens. Closed Mondays outside summer, so confirm before you commit.
