The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University is one of the oldest university natural history museums in the world. It was founded in 1866 and moved to its current location in 1925.
The Peabody Museum is attached to the Kline Geology Laboratory and the Class of 1954 Environmental Sciences Center and has a field station at the Long Island Sound.
The museum also owns Horse Island in the Thimble Islands, which is used for experiments. The Environmental Science Center hosts approximately one-half of the museum’s 13 million specimens.
The Peabody has several world-important collections including
- a vertebrate paleontology collection
- the Hiram Bingham Collection of Incan artifacts from Machu Picchu, named for the famous Yale archaeologist who rediscovered this Peruvian ruin
- an extensive ornithology collection
- a collection of marine invertebrates
The museum also displays the first full-scale reproduction of a Torosaurus. The 3 m (9 ft) tall, 7 m (21 ft) long, 3.33 metric ton (7,350 lb) statue was sculpted in clay and cast in bronze, and set on a tall granite base. Its reproduction is based on the fossilized skin impressions left by a Chasmosaurus, a closely related ceratopsid.
An arthropod fossil from Missouri
Highlights of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
- The Great Hall of Dinosaurs
- A mounted juvenile Brontosaurus and the 110-foot (34 m)
- The Age of Reptiles mural
- Exhibits dedicated to mammal evolution
- Wildlife dioramas
- The Hall of Ancient Egyptian Artifacts
- The collection of birds, minerals from Connecticut
- The Exhibit on Native Americans of Connecticut
A Babylonian Tablet showing the square root of 2 using the Pythagorean theorem for an isosceles triangle
Peabody Museum of Natural History
- Name: Peabody Museum of Natural History
- City: New Haven, Connecticut
- Established: 1866
- Type: Natural History Museum, University Museum
- Location: 170 Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States
The torosaurus statue in front of the Peabody Museum
Peabody Museum of Natural History – Map
Peabody Museum of Natural History – 360 Views
Peabody Museum of Natural History – 360 Views
Virtual Tour of the Museums in New Haven, Connecticut
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Peabody Museum of Natural History
- New Haven Museum and Historical Society
- Yale Center for British Art
Peabody Museum of Natural History – 360 Views
Peabody Museum of Natural History – 360 Views
Peabody Museum of Natural History
New York Museums – Virtual Tours
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art or MET
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum
- Neue Galerie New York
- The Cloisters
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- American Museum of Natural History
- Museum of the City of New York
- New-York Historical Society
- Frick Collection
- Met Breuer
- Rubin Museum of Art
- Brooklyn Museum
Washington, D.C. Museums – Virtual Tours
- National Gallery of Art
- National Museum of American History
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Portrait Gallery
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Phillips Collection
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- International Spy Museum
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Peabody Museum of Natural History
~~~
“I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.”
– David Attenborough
~~~
Photo Credit: No machine-readable author provided. Ragesoss assumed (based on copyright claims). / Public domain; James St. John / CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); Urcia, A., Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, http://peabody.yale.edu, http://hdl.handle.net/10079/8931zqjderivative work, user:Theodor Langhorne Franklin / CC0 ; olekinderhook / CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
Popular this Week
Sponsor your Favorite Page SEARCH Search for: Search Follow UsJoin – The JOM Membership Program
Sponsor a Masterpiece with YOUR NAME CHOICE for $5
Share this:
- Tweet
