Tour of the UC Berkeley Natural History Museums
October 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
- Free but online
Registration is required
UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology Atrium, Valley Life Sciences BuildingHarmon Way, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94704 United States
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Meet on the lower level by the Tyrannosaurus rex!)
Why do we need natural history museum collections? The millions of specimens contained in the six natural history museums at UC Berkeley have provided the building blocks of data from which scores of researchers have described new species, unraveled complicated kinships among organisms, and discovered how organisms evolve and adapt to their environments. Go behind the scenes in the Essig Entomology Museum, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and the Jepson and University Herbaria to discover amazing treasures of biodiversity.
RSVP is needed to attend-- register here.This is not an official DigitalHERITAGE event but is included for attendees interested in natural history and collections. Anyone interested in attending will need to arrange their own transportation. UC Berkeley is easily accessible on BART, the Bay Area's rapid transit metro system. Bart info is online at www.bart.gov Get off your train at the Berkeley BART station and walk 10minutes east onto the campus to the Valley Life Sciences Building.
