Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
@yukonberingia.bsky.social
Interpretive Centre all about Beringia and the Ice Age
📍 Whitehorse, Yukon
📍 Whitehorse, Yukon
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Le Centre d’interprétation de la Béringie sera fermé le lundi 24 novembre et le lundi 1er décembre en raison d’un manque de personnel.
Toutefois, l’horaire de la fin de semaine demeure inchangé. Nous restons ouverts les samedis et les dimanches, de 12 h à 17 h.
Toutefois, l’horaire de la fin de semaine demeure inchangé. Nous restons ouverts les samedis et les dimanches, de 12 h à 17 h.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Le Centre d’interprétation de la Béringie sera fermé le lundi 24 novembre et le lundi 1er décembre en raison d’un manque de personnel.
Toutefois, l’horaire de la fin de semaine demeure inchangé. Nous restons ouverts les samedis et les dimanches, de 12 h à 17 h.
Toutefois, l’horaire de la fin de semaine demeure inchangé. Nous restons ouverts les samedis et les dimanches, de 12 h à 17 h.
The Beringia Centre will be closed to the public on Monday November 24 and Monday December 1 due to an ongoing staff shortage.
If you’re planning a visit in the next two weeks, our weekend hours are unaffected. During this period, we will still be open Saturdays and Sundays from 12 pm to 5 pm.
If you’re planning a visit in the next two weeks, our weekend hours are unaffected. During this period, we will still be open Saturdays and Sundays from 12 pm to 5 pm.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Beringia Centre will be closed to the public on Monday November 24 and Monday December 1 due to an ongoing staff shortage.
If you’re planning a visit in the next two weeks, our weekend hours are unaffected. During this period, we will still be open Saturdays and Sundays from 12 pm to 5 pm.
If you’re planning a visit in the next two weeks, our weekend hours are unaffected. During this period, we will still be open Saturdays and Sundays from 12 pm to 5 pm.
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Fossil hunting in the Netherlands with comments by Dick Mol and beautiful pictures of mammoths fossils!
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A Day at the Beach Hunting Mammoths
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November 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Fossil hunting in the Netherlands with comments by Dick Mol and beautiful pictures of mammoths fossils!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/a...
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Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
November 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Video of woolly mammoth leg discovered in the Siberian permafrost!
Researchers from #CpgSthlm and SciLifeLab have now, for the first time ever, identified signatures of gene activity in frozen mammoth remains!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Only two days to go until our first Beringia Centre Science Talk of the season!
Meet this week's speaker, Dr. Emil Karpinski. Tune in live Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 am Yukon Time for his talk: Mastodons at all ends of the continents.
Learn more and pre-register on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
#BCST
Meet this week's speaker, Dr. Emil Karpinski. Tune in live Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 am Yukon Time for his talk: Mastodons at all ends of the continents.
Learn more and pre-register on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
#BCST
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Only two days to go until our first Beringia Centre Science Talk of the season!
Meet this week's speaker, Dr. Emil Karpinski. Tune in live Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 am Yukon Time for his talk: Mastodons at all ends of the continents.
Learn more and pre-register on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
#BCST
Meet this week's speaker, Dr. Emil Karpinski. Tune in live Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 am Yukon Time for his talk: Mastodons at all ends of the continents.
Learn more and pre-register on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
#BCST
Coming up on Thursday!
Mastodons are taking the spotlight for our first Beringia Centre Science Talk of the season!
📅 Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 AM (Yukon Time)
Join @emilkarpinski.bsky.social as he dives into the fascinating world of mastodons in North America. Learn more and pre-register for the talk on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
📅 Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 AM (Yukon Time)
Join @emilkarpinski.bsky.social as he dives into the fascinating world of mastodons in North America. Learn more and pre-register for the talk on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
November 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Coming up on Thursday!
Looking for the perfect last minute Halloween costume? We've got you covered! 🎃
Arctic ground squirrel cowboy? Scimitar cat bride? Chances are, no one is showing up at the party wearing one of these outfits!
What did you get?
Arctic ground squirrel cowboy? Scimitar cat bride? Chances are, no one is showing up at the party wearing one of these outfits!
What did you get?
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Looking for the perfect last minute Halloween costume? We've got you covered! 🎃
Arctic ground squirrel cowboy? Scimitar cat bride? Chances are, no one is showing up at the party wearing one of these outfits!
What did you get?
Arctic ground squirrel cowboy? Scimitar cat bride? Chances are, no one is showing up at the party wearing one of these outfits!
What did you get?
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Happy to share our latest work on Pleistocene mastodons, featuring mastodons on coasts of North America! Great collaboration that resulted in a really interesting paper (link below)! Huge shout out to Kathryn Killackey for making this beautiful piece!
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September 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Happy to share our latest work on Pleistocene mastodons, featuring mastodons on coasts of North America! Great collaboration that resulted in a really interesting paper (link below)! Huge shout out to Kathryn Killackey for making this beautiful piece!
scim.ag/47Dn6pM
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Mastodons are taking the spotlight for our first Beringia Centre Science Talk of the season!
📅 Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 AM (Yukon Time)
Join @emilkarpinski.bsky.social as he dives into the fascinating world of mastodons in North America. Learn more and pre-register for the talk on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
📅 Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 AM (Yukon Time)
Join @emilkarpinski.bsky.social as he dives into the fascinating world of mastodons in North America. Learn more and pre-register for the talk on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
October 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Mastodons are taking the spotlight for our first Beringia Centre Science Talk of the season!
📅 Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 AM (Yukon Time)
Join @emilkarpinski.bsky.social as he dives into the fascinating world of mastodons in North America. Learn more and pre-register for the talk on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
📅 Thurs Nov 6 @ 11 AM (Yukon Time)
Join @emilkarpinski.bsky.social as he dives into the fascinating world of mastodons in North America. Learn more and pre-register for the talk on Zoom: bit.ly/4hzlm3u
Have you had a chance to check out the Haunted Halls of Boo-ringia yet? Today is your last chance! We're open from 12 to 5 pm. Don't ghost us, come meet our ghosts and ghouls instead! 👻
October 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Have you had a chance to check out the Haunted Halls of Boo-ringia yet? Today is your last chance! We're open from 12 to 5 pm. Don't ghost us, come meet our ghosts and ghouls instead! 👻
Come celebrate #InternationalArchaeologyDay with us this Saturday October 18 - admission is FREE all day! 🥳
Join Long Ago Yukon and the Yukon Beringia Centre for an afternoon of hands-on activities, live demonstrations, a movie screening, and more.
Details: beringia.com/events/celeb...
#IAD2025
Join Long Ago Yukon and the Yukon Beringia Centre for an afternoon of hands-on activities, live demonstrations, a movie screening, and more.
Details: beringia.com/events/celeb...
#IAD2025
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Come celebrate #InternationalArchaeologyDay with us this Saturday October 18 - admission is FREE all day! 🥳
Join Long Ago Yukon and the Yukon Beringia Centre for an afternoon of hands-on activities, live demonstrations, a movie screening, and more.
Details: beringia.com/events/celeb...
#IAD2025
Join Long Ago Yukon and the Yukon Beringia Centre for an afternoon of hands-on activities, live demonstrations, a movie screening, and more.
Details: beringia.com/events/celeb...
#IAD2025
Someone recently asked us: what's the coolest fossil in your collection? 🤔
When we asked one of our colleagues over at Yukon Palaeontology they immediately said the weird ones. They even have a few shelves full of 'em!
#FossilFriday #WhitehorseWeird #Paleontology
When we asked one of our colleagues over at Yukon Palaeontology they immediately said the weird ones. They even have a few shelves full of 'em!
#FossilFriday #WhitehorseWeird #Paleontology
September 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Someone recently asked us: what's the coolest fossil in your collection? 🤔
When we asked one of our colleagues over at Yukon Palaeontology they immediately said the weird ones. They even have a few shelves full of 'em!
#FossilFriday #WhitehorseWeird #Paleontology
When we asked one of our colleagues over at Yukon Palaeontology they immediately said the weird ones. They even have a few shelves full of 'em!
#FossilFriday #WhitehorseWeird #Paleontology
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À venir en fin de semaine!📢
Ce samedi 27 septembre, venez souligner la Fête de la culture au Centre d’interprétation de la Béringie. L’entrée est gratuite! Joignez-vous à nous à 11 h ou à 14 h 45 pour une visite guidée. Vous pouvez également faire une visite autoguidée en tout temps.
Ce samedi 27 septembre, venez souligner la Fête de la culture au Centre d’interprétation de la Béringie. L’entrée est gratuite! Joignez-vous à nous à 11 h ou à 14 h 45 pour une visite guidée. Vous pouvez également faire une visite autoguidée en tout temps.
September 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
À venir en fin de semaine!📢
Ce samedi 27 septembre, venez souligner la Fête de la culture au Centre d’interprétation de la Béringie. L’entrée est gratuite! Joignez-vous à nous à 11 h ou à 14 h 45 pour une visite guidée. Vous pouvez également faire une visite autoguidée en tout temps.
Ce samedi 27 septembre, venez souligner la Fête de la culture au Centre d’interprétation de la Béringie. L’entrée est gratuite! Joignez-vous à nous à 11 h ou à 14 h 45 pour une visite guidée. Vous pouvez également faire une visite autoguidée en tout temps.
Coming up this weekend 📢
This Saturday, September 27, join us at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre for Culture Days and our last day of summer hours. Admission's free! Take a self-guided tour or join us at 11 AM or 2:45 PM for a guided one.
#CultureDays #WhitehorseYukon #YukonEvents
This Saturday, September 27, join us at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre for Culture Days and our last day of summer hours. Admission's free! Take a self-guided tour or join us at 11 AM or 2:45 PM for a guided one.
#CultureDays #WhitehorseYukon #YukonEvents
September 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Coming up this weekend 📢
This Saturday, September 27, join us at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre for Culture Days and our last day of summer hours. Admission's free! Take a self-guided tour or join us at 11 AM or 2:45 PM for a guided one.
#CultureDays #WhitehorseYukon #YukonEvents
This Saturday, September 27, join us at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre for Culture Days and our last day of summer hours. Admission's free! Take a self-guided tour or join us at 11 AM or 2:45 PM for a guided one.
#CultureDays #WhitehorseYukon #YukonEvents
The weather might say autumn, but our schedule says summer 🌞
Now through September 27, we're open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
We'll be taking a short break from Sunday September 28 to Friday October 3, but reopen with our winter hours Saturday October 4.
Now through September 27, we're open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
We'll be taking a short break from Sunday September 28 to Friday October 3, but reopen with our winter hours Saturday October 4.
September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The weather might say autumn, but our schedule says summer 🌞
Now through September 27, we're open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
We'll be taking a short break from Sunday September 28 to Friday October 3, but reopen with our winter hours Saturday October 4.
Now through September 27, we're open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm.
We'll be taking a short break from Sunday September 28 to Friday October 3, but reopen with our winter hours Saturday October 4.
First stop on your next visit to the Beringia Centre?
A warm and woolly welcome from the mammoth family outside the museum 🦣
#MuseumMonday #MammothMonday #WoollyMammoth #TravelYukon #MuseumsOfTheWorld
A warm and woolly welcome from the mammoth family outside the museum 🦣
#MuseumMonday #MammothMonday #WoollyMammoth #TravelYukon #MuseumsOfTheWorld
A warm and woolly welcome
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September 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
First stop on your next visit to the Beringia Centre?
A warm and woolly welcome from the mammoth family outside the museum 🦣
#MuseumMonday #MammothMonday #WoollyMammoth #TravelYukon #MuseumsOfTheWorld
A warm and woolly welcome from the mammoth family outside the museum 🦣
#MuseumMonday #MammothMonday #WoollyMammoth #TravelYukon #MuseumsOfTheWorld
Come celebrate #CultureDays and the final day of our summer season with FREE admission on Saturday September 27 from 10 to 5 pm. This is your last chance to visit before we change to our winter hours.
Explore on your own or take one of our guided tours at 11:00 AM or 2:45 PM.
Explore on your own or take one of our guided tours at 11:00 AM or 2:45 PM.
September 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Come celebrate #CultureDays and the final day of our summer season with FREE admission on Saturday September 27 from 10 to 5 pm. This is your last chance to visit before we change to our winter hours.
Explore on your own or take one of our guided tours at 11:00 AM or 2:45 PM.
Explore on your own or take one of our guided tours at 11:00 AM or 2:45 PM.
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Check out @benjaminguinet.bsky.social's fantastic thread explaining how he recovered the oldest host-associated microbial genome! 🦠🦣🧬
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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Check out @benjaminguinet.bsky.social's fantastic thread explaining how he recovered the oldest host-associated microbial genome! 🦠🦣🧬
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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth!
New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!
Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!
Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
September 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The world's oldest bacterial DNA found in a million-year-old mammoth!
New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!
Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
New results from researchers at #CpgSthlm published in Cell!
Paper:
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Long before dogs became our best friends, their ancestors roamed Beringia 🐺
This is Zhùr, a ~57,000 yr old mummified wolf pup discovered in the Klondike (Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory). Preserved by permafrost, her fur, skin, and paws have survived since the Ice Age.
#InternationalDogDay
This is Zhùr, a ~57,000 yr old mummified wolf pup discovered in the Klondike (Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory). Preserved by permafrost, her fur, skin, and paws have survived since the Ice Age.
#InternationalDogDay
August 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Long before dogs became our best friends, their ancestors roamed Beringia 🐺
This is Zhùr, a ~57,000 yr old mummified wolf pup discovered in the Klondike (Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory). Preserved by permafrost, her fur, skin, and paws have survived since the Ice Age.
#InternationalDogDay
This is Zhùr, a ~57,000 yr old mummified wolf pup discovered in the Klondike (Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory). Preserved by permafrost, her fur, skin, and paws have survived since the Ice Age.
#InternationalDogDay
Happy first day of school, Yukon!
Teachers: if you're looking to plan your next field trip, we offer guided school tours year round. For details, visit our website: beringia.com/learn/schools
#BackToSchool
Teachers: if you're looking to plan your next field trip, we offer guided school tours year round. For details, visit our website: beringia.com/learn/schools
#BackToSchool
August 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Happy first day of school, Yukon!
Teachers: if you're looking to plan your next field trip, we offer guided school tours year round. For details, visit our website: beringia.com/learn/schools
#BackToSchool
Teachers: if you're looking to plan your next field trip, we offer guided school tours year round. For details, visit our website: beringia.com/learn/schools
#BackToSchool
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This research not only provides exciting new insight into mammoth evolutionary history, it reveals an entirely unknown lineage of ancient mammoth. 🦣
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August 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This research not only provides exciting new insight into mammoth evolutionary history, it reveals an entirely unknown lineage of ancient mammoth. 🦣
gizmodo.com/million-year...
gizmodo.com/million-year...
That time, Crow can be a man or can fly around. He knew the water was going to rise, floods were coming
Crow Makes the World by Mark Porter & Keith Wolfe Smarch shares the First Nations legend about Crow bringing abundance to the earth after a great flood
Learn about the artists: bit.ly/4lFbXrM
Crow Makes the World by Mark Porter & Keith Wolfe Smarch shares the First Nations legend about Crow bringing abundance to the earth after a great flood
Learn about the artists: bit.ly/4lFbXrM
August 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
That time, Crow can be a man or can fly around. He knew the water was going to rise, floods were coming
Crow Makes the World by Mark Porter & Keith Wolfe Smarch shares the First Nations legend about Crow bringing abundance to the earth after a great flood
Learn about the artists: bit.ly/4lFbXrM
Crow Makes the World by Mark Porter & Keith Wolfe Smarch shares the First Nations legend about Crow bringing abundance to the earth after a great flood
Learn about the artists: bit.ly/4lFbXrM
In 1984, a dog named Molly discovered this remarkable fossil on a gold mine in the Sixtymile River area. It turned out to be a black-footed ferret, the first ever found in the Yukon. Recently, we were carefully removed the ferret from its exhibit case to take 2 tissue samples for scientific testing.
August 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
In 1984, a dog named Molly discovered this remarkable fossil on a gold mine in the Sixtymile River area. It turned out to be a black-footed ferret, the first ever found in the Yukon. Recently, we were carefully removed the ferret from its exhibit case to take 2 tissue samples for scientific testing.
It’s no #LifeOfAShowgirl, but the life of Arctic ground squirrels deserve your attention. These tiny mammals have arguably taught us more about Ice Age Beringia than any other animal.
Curious to learn more? Visit us in person during our open hours or check out our website: bit.ly/3JfA0zV
Curious to learn more? Visit us in person during our open hours or check out our website: bit.ly/3JfA0zV
August 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
It’s no #LifeOfAShowgirl, but the life of Arctic ground squirrels deserve your attention. These tiny mammals have arguably taught us more about Ice Age Beringia than any other animal.
Curious to learn more? Visit us in person during our open hours or check out our website: bit.ly/3JfA0zV
Curious to learn more? Visit us in person during our open hours or check out our website: bit.ly/3JfA0zV