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.
(2077)

The newly renovated museum reopened to the public March 26, 2024. Admission is free.

Thanks to popular demand, we are adding another yoga class, run by@yalecampusrec. This will take place on Sunday, June...
05/26/2026

Thanks to popular demand, we are adding another yoga class, run by@yalecampusrec. This will take place on Sunday, June 28 in David Friend Hall, amongst our gems and minerals. Classes start at 10 am. Tickets are available here: https://bit.ly/4sgGtMQ

We are delighted to announce Goodnight Blue Moon as our musical entertainment at Golden Hour, the Peabody’s inaugural su...
05/24/2026

We are delighted to announce Goodnight Blue Moon as our musical entertainment at Golden Hour, the Peabody’s inaugural summer benefit, taking place Saturday, June 20 at 6:30 p.m.

Blending rich vocal harmonies with lush orchestrations, Goodnight Blue Moon has created a sound that is steeped in tradition, yet entirely current. GNBM is known for their energetic, honest, and dynamic live performances, offering a refreshing take on Americana roots music.

Awarded Best Roots Act in the 2016 New England Music Awards, and Best Folk/Traditional Act in the 2018 and 2013 Connecticut Music Awards, Goodnight Blue Moon has cemented their place as one of New England's premier groups. Listen to some of their music below.

Reserve your tickets now https://bit.ly/3Rl6Cwo

05/22/2026

For some of the scribes who wrote on papyri over 4,000 years ago in Egypt, capturing one's identity was extremely important - they wanted to be remembered, explained Yale Egyptologist Victoria Almansa-Villatoro. Our newest temporary gallery "Unfolding History" talks about the evolution of writing and sheds light on the work of Ib, Mereru, and Wadji, three scribes whose names appear on the tiny document fragments on display. New Haven Independent shares the story.

A new paper calls for ecologists and evolutionary biologists to consider how organisms experience climate rather than ho...
05/20/2026

A new paper calls for ecologists and evolutionary biologists to consider how organisms experience climate rather than how weather stations record it when doing climate-biology research. The paper offers a framework for linking climate data to biology at three scales – the macroclimate of a region, the habitat climate shaped by local vegetation and topography, and organismal microclimate, the specific conditions an individual organism encounters.

Postdoctoral associate David Klinges, an incoming assistant professor at Rutgers University, was the lead author. Yale Peabody Museum curators David Skelly and Martha Muñoz were among the co-authors.

Read more at LINK IN BIO

Alexi Baker, the collections manager in the Yale Peabody Museum’s history of science and technology collection, spent ye...
05/20/2026

Alexi Baker, the collections manager in the Yale Peabody Museum’s history of science and technology collection, spent years in English libraries, delving through 18th and 19th-century archives, seeking to tease out the truth of England’s first standing funding body supporting scientific endeavors.

The result of her work, a book called “The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation, and Empire” offers new insights into an important innovator during Georgian Britain.

The board encouraged ways to determine longitude at sea, a crucial tool for travel, trade, and military uses, influencing how the British Empire investigated nature and developed new scientific ideas.

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

"Unfolding History: Writing in Ancient Egypt," the Yale Peabody Museum’s newest temporary exhibition, goes back 4,000 ye...
05/19/2026

"Unfolding History: Writing in Ancient Egypt," the Yale Peabody Museum’s newest temporary exhibition, goes back 4,000 years to explore the origins of writing. Yale researchers are studying a set of tiny document fragments, forgotten since their arrival at the Brooklyn Museum in 1947, to learn more about this crucial moment for human communication – when writing moved beyond the palace of the pharaoh to the daily lives of regular people. On display through November.

In celebration of Yale's 325th commencement, the Peabody will be open on Monday, May 18 from noon to 5 pm.
05/16/2026

In celebration of Yale's 325th commencement, the Peabody will be open on Monday, May 18 from noon to 5 pm.

The A.C. Gilbert Company changed how children explored science. The New Haven-based company was founded in 1909 by Alfre...
05/15/2026

The A.C. Gilbert Company changed how children explored science. The New Haven-based company was founded in 1909 by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, a Yale trained inventor, and went out of business in 1967, shortly after his death. His company produced miniature kits with tools, materials, and manuals – “outfits” that allowed kids to imagine themselves as scientists. When a child is outfitted for science, they are not just learning ideas – they are stepping into a social role. Learn more about it in the Peabody’s newest Central Gallery display “Gilbert’s Closet,” curated by Kartika Puri and Jane Zhang, doctoral students in comparative literature.

Hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, life flourished in the oceans. Upon entering our Ancient Oceans exhibiti...
05/13/2026

Hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, life flourished in the oceans. Upon entering our Ancient Oceans exhibition in the Burke Hall of Dinosaurs, which tells the story of that time, you’ll see large ammonites with fascinating preservation. These creatures are closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish. The chambers of the Peabody’s striking examples of ammonites are filled with crystals formed from mineral-rich waters that seeped into the fossil.

Join us at the Yale Peabody Museum on Saturday, May 23 at 2 pm for a screening of the documentary "Taíno Legacy." The fi...
05/09/2026

Join us at the Yale Peabody Museum on Saturday, May 23 at 2 pm for a screening of the documentary "Taíno Legacy." The film is a searing and meditative documentary that confronts the monumental scale of cultural and human destruction unleashed upon the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, beginning with the Taíno of the Caribbean, and seeks to honor and recover the living threads of a nearly extinguished civilization. This 20-minute short film will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Carlos Torre. Admission is free.

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Friday 10am - 5pm
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