Yale Peabody Museum

09/04/2026

Keshley Carmona graduated from the Peabody's EVOLUTIONS (EVO) in the late 2000s, telling herself that she’d put her future child in the program. Her daughter Keshley Colon now calls the program a second home as she enters her junior year of high school. Learn more about how two generations benefited from participating in the EVO program.

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09/02/2026

The Peabody's Living Lab is home to live animals, including butterflies, poison dart frogs, lizards, and an eastern indigo snake. It's a place for you to think about the world in your own way.

This gallery displays an array of objects from across the museum’s collections. Most of the Peabody’s galleries feature items selected by curators to tell a story. In the Living Lab, visitors are invited to explore and form their own stories based on what they see.

Learn more: https://peabody.yale.edu/explore/exhibitions/living-lab

09/02/2026

At the Peabody’s Digital Studio, the only requirement is curiosity. For Yale students who, for example, want to take a close-up photo of a scorpion’s stinger or digitize the minute details of a feather’s anatomy, our imaging studio offers the technology — and a shared spirit of enterprise.

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09/01/2026

Thanks for our friends at the Arts Council for helping us get the word out!

September events are rolling in! The Yale Peabody Museum and Junta for Progressive Action will host ¡Fiesta Latina!, a celebration of Hispanic cultures that features music and other community events.

The celebration will take place September 26 and 27. Junta for Progressive Action will host programming at 169 Grand Avenue, New Haven from noon to 5 pm on Saturday, September 26. There will be a day of performances held at the Peabody Museum, located at 170 Whitney Avenue, on Sunday, September 27 from noon to 5 pm. Programs will be free, community-led, and accessible to participants of all ages.

The event is a collaboration between the Peabody Museum and Junta for Progressive Action. Support for Fiesta Latina is provided by the Fidelity CHET 529 College Savings Program, by the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, and by the Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center.

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

Pictured: Members of Ballet Folklórico Alma de México at last year's celebration. Lucy Gellman File Photo.

08/31/2026

With just a few objects, the Peabody Museum’s new temporary exhibition “Unfolding History: Writing in Ancient Egypt” lays out the journey from communicating through images which evolved into hieroglyphics. More than 5,500 years ago, Egyptians decorated pottery with festival scenes of boats, people, animals, and other designs that symbolized religious beliefs. More than 2,000 years later, the Egyptians began to incorporate signs, often in pairs, as labels, and to associate signs with specific sounds. Early hieroglyphics were used on tombs to trumpet the king’s power. Learn more at the temporary exhibition on display through November.

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

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.

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.

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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

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