Yale Peabody Museum

See a mounted Brontosaurus, the 110-foot Age of Reptiles mural and galleries on ancient civilizations at Yale's natural history museum.

170 Whitney Ave · New Haven, CT

About Yale Peabody Museum

Founded in 1866, Yale's natural history museum reopened in March 2024 after a renovation that more than doubled its exhibition space. Galleries spread over three floors, with a mounted Brontosaurus skeleton, Rudolph Zallinger's 110-foot mural The Age of Reptiles, and rooms on Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia and Andean and Mesoamerican civilizations. Admission is free and individual visitors need no tickets.

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