Imagine yourself surrounded by one million kinds of insects. It shouldn’t be difficult – insects are the largest class in the animal kingdom and live throughout the world on land and in freshwater. But can you imagine the incandescent wings of a Melissa Blue butterfly or the luminous green colour of a Jewel Scarab beetle? Enter the EH Strickland Entomological Museum and explore this incredible world of insect biology and discover how these creatures relate to each other, to their environment and to us.

With preserved insects from around the planet, the Museum is an invaluable resource for researchers, students and naturalists. It holds the largest collection of Mexican ground beetles in the world, as well as significant collections of other insects from North America. It is an extremely important regional collection, with specimens representing most species of insects in the province of Alberta.