by Andrew Morrison | The gigantic blue whale skeleton suspended from the ceiling of the two-storey glass gallery at UBC’s vast Beaty Biodiversity Museum is the next cool thing. Of course the rest of the place is pretty amazing, too. There are 20,000 square feet of fascinating exhibits and collections that include hundreds of thousands of mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile, bug, fish, and invertebrate specimens, plus 20,000 fossils. But the whale is the thing that draws me back. I just gawp at the thing, amazed at how big it is. The museum is open seven days a week, from 10am to 5pm.

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