Yale Peabody Museum

Yale Peabody Museum The Yale Peabody Museum tells the story of over 4.5 billion years of the world's history and holds over 14 million objects and specimens in its collections.
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The newly renovated museum reopened to the public March 26, 2024. Admission is free.

Join us for Fiesta Latina 2026, hosted by Junta for Progressive Action and the Yale Peabody Museum, on Saturday, Septemb...
08/28/2026

Join us for Fiesta Latina 2026, hosted by Junta for Progressive Action and the Yale Peabody Museum, on Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27 from noon to 5 pm.

Junta will hold a free, family friendly event with live music, dance performances, food vendors, kids’ activities, and cultural pride in full force on Saturday, September 26 at its location on 169 Grand Avenue in New Haven. The Peabody will hold a day of curated exhibits, youth performances, music, dancing, and educational engagement celebrating Hispanic culture on Sunday, September 27 at the museum.

Learn more: https://peabody.yale.edu/news/fiesta-latina-2026

The original Peabody Museum located in downtown New Haven only had enough room to display the pelvis and hind legs of ou...
08/27/2026

The original Peabody Museum located in downtown New Haven only had enough room to display the pelvis and hind legs of our Brontosaurus. When the museum moved to its current home in 1925, the Burke Hall of Dinosaurs was specifically designed to hold the 70-ft long ‘thunder lizard.’ In the new Peabody Museum, the latest scientific research was used to redo the mount, showing the creature in a more dynamic pose.

A group of talented local high school and college students will have a great story to tell when they return to school in...
08/21/2026

A group of talented local high school and college students will have a great story to tell when they return to school in the Fall. Thanks to the John and Dorothy Allen Summer Internship Program, they fanned out across Yale gathering real-world scientific and professional experience, including preparing fossil specimens.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4bP4qoj

"Computers" were originally humans, including women and people of color. Electronic computers emerged during World War I...
08/19/2026

"Computers" were originally humans, including women and people of color. Electronic computers emerged during World War II to decipher codes and calculate weapon trajectories. The Peabody has some examples of how the technology evolved in its History of Science and Technology gallery on the second floor.

Take a deeper dive into the Peabody's History of Science and Technology collection here: https://bit.ly/4aHaEpK

A group of seven- and 8-year-olds from LEAP New Haven visited the Peabody for a lesson on animal adaptations, getting th...
08/19/2026

A group of seven- and 8-year-olds from LEAP New Haven visited the Peabody for a lesson on animal adaptations, getting the chance to touch items from the museum’s collection. These workshops are developed by Gina Impronto-Rodriguez, the Peabody's Lead Educator of K-12 School Programs.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4qk9F5d

This statue of an Egyptian official from about 2300 to 2100 BCE, reflects an intentional aesthetic shift away from stand...
08/17/2026

This statue of an Egyptian official from about 2300 to 2100 BCE, reflects an intentional aesthetic shift away from standards defined by royal statuary. Private individuals drove this artistic shift, featuring disproportionate heads, eyes, or limbs. This artifact is on display in the Peabody’s temporary exhibition “Unfolding History: Writing in Ancient Egypt,” currently on display through November.

The Peabody’s parking situation has changed. Parking is now available in Lot 22V, shown on the map. The lot is available...
08/17/2026

The Peabody’s parking situation has changed. Parking is now available in Lot 22V, shown on the map. The lot is available during weekdays from 930 am to 5 pm and parking tickets must be validated at the museum’s front desk. Parking is extremely limited and additional parking options are available at the Chapel/York Garage, 150 York Street; Grove Street Garage, 63 Grove Street; Audubon Garage, 61 Audubon Street; and Science Park Garage, 347 Wi******er Ave.

For more information, visit https://peabody.yale.edu/visit

When the current location of the Yale Peabody Museum first opened in 1925, it was Stegosaurus and not Brontosaurus that ...
08/13/2026

When the current location of the Yale Peabody Museum first opened in 1925, it was Stegosaurus and not Brontosaurus that held the place of honor in what was then known as the Great Hall. It took several attempts to understand the creature – Peabody founder and paleontologist O.C. Marsh initially thought the fossils he had found belonged to an aquatic turtle-like animal. As more skeletons were unearthed, Marsh realized what he thought might have been fragments from a shell were plates that ran vertically along the animal’s back. Peabody scientists constructed the first ever Stegosaurus skeletal mount, and it was put on display in the old museum in 1910. Brontosaurus would take center stage in the Burke Hall of Dinosaurs in 1931, over 50 years after it was first described.

In celebration of the career of Peabody curator and Yale Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Jacques Gauthier, a p...
08/12/2026

In celebration of the career of Peabody curator and Yale Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Jacques Gauthier, a public symposium will take place gathering some of the world’s leading paleontologists to discuss the latest discoveries about the history of life on Earth. The public talks will be held on Friday, August 14 from 9:30 am to 5 pm at O.C. Marsh Lecture Hall, Yale Science Building. Admission is free.

A Zoom link is now available: https://yale.zoom.us/j/96564467888

Photo of Deinonychus by Andy Melien.

Artist Taisha Carrington hopes that her newest piece will leave a mark on Peabody visitors, quite literally. Carrington,...
08/05/2026

Artist Taisha Carrington hopes that her newest piece will leave a mark on Peabody visitors, quite literally. Carrington, a graduate student at the Yale School of Art, was inspired by the Museum's collections and recent temporary exhibition, Taíno Vive, to create a work of art that questions how objects and encounters leave traces on people. Her new interactive art installation, Soft Traces, was created as part of the Yale Peabody Museum's Summer Art Fellowship and is now on display.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4pUN9ja

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