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Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum

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Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Phone:
+1 801-422-5050

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday10am - 9pm
Tuesday10am - 9pm
Wednesday10am - 9pm
Thursday10am - 9pm
Friday10am - 9pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum is a natural history museum housed at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. The museum is named for Monte Lafayette Bean, a self-made Seattle-based magnate who entirely funded and paid for the museum building's construction. He also donated many of his own animal trophies to the collection. The Bean Museum opened on March 28 1978, and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. It maintains collections of vascular and non-vascular plants, and invertebrate and vertebrate animals. Before 1978, it was known as the BYU Life Sciences Museum and did not have its own building. The Bean Museum now houses the Liger Shasta who lived at the Hogle Zoo from when she was born on May 6, 1948, till when she died, on July 12, 1972.Admission to the three-story museum is free of charge and over 100,000 unique visitors come to see the over 2 million specimens of insects, plants, reptiles, fish, shells, and birds.
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