PEI's blue whale skeleton on display at UBC

Issue: 
May 2010

The skeleton of a blue whale that beached in western P.E.I. 22 years ago is now on public display in a custom-built exhibition gallery in British Columbia. The 26-metre long skeleton fills a two-storey glass atrium at the Beatty Biodiversity Museum, located at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus. There are only 20 blue whale skeletons in the world on public display, and this is the first one in Canada. Wildlife pathologist Dr. Pierre Yves-Daoust led the AVC team that worked with UBC two years ago to recover the whale. Click here for more information about the reconstruction of the massive skeleton. (Photo by Michael DeRoos)