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The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is Vancouver鈥檚 natural history museum. We work to promote a greater understanding of, and collective responsibility for, the biodiversity of British Columbia, Canada, and the world. We invite you to let curiosity curate your experience in our active research collection where you can peer into cabinets and open drawers. Come visit us - we鈥檙e located at 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC. You can find more info at聽 |
Just another reason 麻豆传媒映画is Awesome 鈥� we already have a blue whale hanging in our natural history museum!
Big Blue hanging in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum Atrium.
The media is swimming with news about the found in Newfoundland and . The ROM鈥檚 team has already to Toronto, and the next step is to bury it with the hopes that decomposers in the soil will break down all of the rotting flesh on the animal. After a year or so, they鈥檒l dig it up again and prepare it for display.
Lucky for us, we鈥檝e already been there and done that. And experienced the stench. Christopher Stinson, Curatorial Assistant at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, was a part of the team that dug up our blue whale (fondly named big blue) and has a few tips for the ROM team鈥檚 upcoming, smelly task:
1. Save up for some new clothes
Imagine a job where your clothes are so smelly, you have to take them off before using the Port-A-Potty, in case you 鈥渟tink up鈥� the聽john. There is no amount of washing that will bring those clothes back. Chris counts a backpack, belt, 2 shirts, a pair of pants, and several pairs of underwear as casualties of the project. A small sum, however, in comparison to the trailer that had to be replaced after the team drove around in it.
2. Turn work into play
Tired of constantly streaking stinky whale goo across your face every time you scratch your ear or push your glasses up your nose? Make it into a game! Chris recommends, 鈥淲ho鈥檚 the dirtiest?鈥� as a great end-of-day pick-me-up. And of course, bets on who will take a bite of rotten blue whale blubber are always welcome.
Digging up the Beaty Biodiversity Museum鈥檚 blue whale in PEI. Photo by Chris Stinson.
3. Take a couple of days off when the job is done
It doesn鈥檛 matter if you stand in the shower constantly, scrubbing until you are raw, you won鈥檛 want to schedule any meetings with important people until you鈥檝e sufficiently aired out. Stay at home for a bit when you finish this smelly task 鈥� your colleagues will thank you.
Want to know more about ? Come to the museum to see Big Blue live (so to speak) and watch the documentary . Best of all, we have awesome volunteers who are ready to tell you more , and even give you a whiff of bottled 鈥渆au de rotting whale鈥�.
