Events & Programs

Webinar

Opening the Third Eye

Senses are crucial for navigating the world, but not all animals perceive their environments in the same way. A few living reptiles, like some lizards and the tuatara of New Zealand, possess a special sensory structure on the top of their heads that acts like a third eye,…

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Film Screening

Pleistocene Park

Co-presented by the Yale Peabody Museum & Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Join us for a different way to start your week! We'll watch Pleistocene Park, have a short discussion, then close with a fun happy hour. This is open to the public, but in-person only.  …

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Adult Program

Trees of Connecticut

Join Peabody Museum Education Coordinator Jim Sirch and Senior Botany Collections Manager Patrick Sweeney for this adult education program at Yale's West Campus.  Trees of Connecticut: Identification and Ecology introduces Connecticut's landscape history and ecology,…

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Talk

Cinderella’s Secrets

Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture
with Jessica Thompson, Assistant Curator of Anthropology

Pioneering paleoarchaeologist J. Desmond Clark once described what is now the country of Malawi as the “Cinderella of central African prehistory”. Nearly 70 years later, teams led by Yale professor Jessica Thompson are proving it. In this year’s Edward P. Bass…

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Natural Science Illustration Program

The Yale Peabody Museum’s Natural Science Illustration Program provides opportunities to learn a wide range of art techniques focusing on nature and natural science illustration. Whether you are a beginner or professional, our skilled and certified instructors provide…

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Exhibition

Crafting Worldviews

On display February 17, 2023–June 25, 2023 Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800 examines the inseparable relationship among art, science, and European colonialism from the 16th through the 18th century—an era of voyage, trade, and Europe’s territorial dominance on a global scale. The objects… 8 imagesClick to open gallery… Exhibition made possible by the Jane and Gerald Katcher Fund for Education. Organized by Jessie Park, the Nina and Lee Griggs Assistant Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Paola Bertucci, Associate Professor, History of Science and Medicine Program,… Exhibition webpage

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