When it's -42°C outside, indoor fun is the right move 🥶 What better way to warm up than by visiting a museum dedicated to the Ice Age! Join us this afternoon at 1 pm for a screening of Elf or visit 12 and 5 pm to explore our exhibits and contemplate the frigid temperatures of the last Ice Age.

Faites opérer la magie du temps des Fêtes! Les lundis 22 et 29 décembre, l’entrée est gratuite au Centre d’interprétation de la Béringie en échange d’un don à la banque alimentaire. EN PRIME : présentation du film Elf le 22 décembre et Stars Wars le 29 décembre, en anglais.

Enjoy family fun for less this holiday season with the Canada Strong Pass! Until January 15, kids 17 and under get in for FREE, and youth aged 18 to 24 get 50% off admission. Explore Ice Age giants, hands-on exhibits, and the ancient world of Beringia. #ExploreYukon #TravelYukon #CanadaStrong

It's that time of year again! The Beringia Centre is pleased to bring the holiday classic Elf back to the big screen on Mon Dec 22 at 1 pm. Admission to the movie will be by donation to the Whitehorse Food Bank. Please bring unexpired and nonperishable food or cash. beringia.com/events/elf-c...

The Beringia Centre will be closed to the public on Monday Monday December 8 due to an ongoing staff shortage. Le Centre d’interprétation de la Béringie sera fermé le lundi 8 décembre en raison d’un manque de personnel.

Looking for a fun holiday craft to do with the kids? We've got you covered! Join us Sat Nov 29 from 12:30 to 3:30 pm for our annual stocking decorating craft, the Great Stocking Experiment. Plus, we'll also be showing Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (26 mins) throughout the day! Details: bit.ly/43RTMJl

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.

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.

Fossil hunting in the Netherlands with comments by Dick Mol and beautiful pictures of mammoths fossils! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/a...

🦣 🤯 🦣 🤯 🦣 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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Check out @benjaminguinet.bsky.social's fantastic thread explaining how he recovered the oldest host-associated microbial genome! 🦠🦣🧬 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

When we renovated our main exhibit hall, one of our goals was to make the Ice Age feel more real. From the glint in a predator’s eye to the texture of its fur, every detail helps bring the world of Beringia to life. Bas reliefs by Metrographics Photos by Manu Keggenhoff #PaleoArt #TravelYukon

While the galleries might be quiet when we’re closed, behind the scenes we’re hard at work. During a recent deep clean, we discovered some fossils were starting to stick to their cases. To protect them, we cut soft, inert fabric to fit each fossil precisely. #FossilFriday #BehindTheScenes

Join us Sat Aug 2 at 1 PM for a special in-person Beringia Centre Science Talk with Dr. Lauren Norman on new research at Bluefish Caves, a northern Yukon site that has long been at the center of archaeological debate. More info: beringia.com/events/bluef... #BCST

A little behind-the-scenes peek at the Yukon Palaeontology collection for #FossilFriday 🦴 These partial steppe bison skulls are just a small sample of the fossils in the collection.

Our summer hours are in full swing ☀️ We're open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 AM to 5 PM until September 27. Plan your visit at www.beringia.com #TravelYukon #MammothMonday

1/2 When you think of the Ice Age, volcanoes might not come to mind, but in our opinion they totally should. When volcanos erupt, they send ash, pumice, and other debris into the sky. These materials, called tephra, settle into distinct layers that can be preserved in soil for thousands of years.

Got plans for Canada Day? 🇨🇦 We’re open today from 10 to 5, plus we're also offering free and discounted admission for visitors aged 24 and under as part of the Canada Strong Pass. It doesn't get much more patriotic than that!

Have not been to the Beringia centre since the renovation. It is great! This is Kevin standing in front of the wall of bones! Top left Woolly Mammoth, top right Canadian Mastadon. Three skulls on the lower left are short facesbear, grizzly, black. Above on left plains bison and steppe bison. ….

Recently, our colleagues from Yukon Palaeontology made an incredible find at a mine on Hester Creek in the Klondike: a perfectly preserved fossil horse skull. After examining the skull, we determined that it belonged to a teenage male #FossilFriday

🛶 Happy #NationalCanoeDay After nearly a year under wraps during our roof construction project, Where Legends Meet is once again on display at the Beringia Centre. This bronze sculpture is inspired by the First Nation legend of Ch'itahùukaii (the Traveller).

Huge news! This summer, we're participating in the Canada Strong Pass 🇨🇦 From June 20 to September 2, 2025, we're offering discounted admission to visitors 24 and under. For more information and to plan your visit, visit our website. #CanadaStrong #MeetYourMuseum #ExploreCanada #TravelYukon

Not all Ice Age animals lived on land! Some might be surprised to learn that ancient walrus bones have been found alongside mammoth and steppe bison fossils on Qikiqtaruk. These beaches are the only place in the Yukon where you can find remains of Ice Age marine mammals. Learn more: bit.ly/3FJebri

What’s a museum to do when it’s both #WorldCaribouDay and #FossilFriday? Share a video about our 1.5 million-year-old caribou fossil, obviously!

When we updated our main exhibit hall a few years back, we made sure the space was more than just visually engaging. We also added hands-on, tactile science stations that invite visitors to explore in their own way. #MuseumWeek #MuseumWeek2025 #AccessibilityMW

Change has always been part of life in Beringia. Glaciers advanced and retreated, landscapes shifted, and life adapted. That deep history reminds us: we’re not separate from nature, we’re shaped by it. #WorldEnvironmentDay #MuseumWeek #MuseumWeek2025 #TogethernessMW

We welcome curiosity in all shapes and sizes here! Our kids’ cave is a cozy corner filled with books, colouring pages, puppets, and Ice Age animal toys that invite little ones to learn through play. #MuseumWeek2025 #MuseumWeek #GameMW #ChildrenInMuseums

Let's get moving! 🚲 #DYK that it's easy to bike to the Beringia Centre? We’re located right off the Alaska Hwy trail with racks + bike lockers out front. You can also hop on the city bus, ride to the airport, and cycle the rest of the way. #WorldBicycleDay #MuseumWeek2025 #MuseumWeek #MovementMW

📣 Heads up, #BCST fans! Facebook is removing all past livestream recordings, so our archive of Beringia Centre Science Talks will soon be gone. Future talks will still stream on Facebook & Zoom. Going forward, we’ll be sharing new talks on YouTube so they remain accessible long-term.