page_title: Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
caption_attribution_description: Dr. Wilmer W. Tanner, zoology professor and curator of the BYU Life Sciences Museum, examines a beautiful tiger trophy received by the museum in 1973. The specimen is part of one of the finest collections of mounted animals in the United States. The collection contains eight valuable items from Africa, Asia, and North America. Monte Bean, a Seattle businessman, donated these to the museum. Other important collections given to the Life Sciences Museum in 1973 included thirty-one head mounts and prepared skins given by Mr. and Mrs. Max A. Bench of Chatsworth, California, and eighteen specimens given by Mrs. Cleo Lillywhite of Covina, California.
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Wilmer W. Tanner with a donated tiger at the BYU Life Sciences Museum in 1973
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