Our experiences with natural history and human culture shape our understanding of the world. The Alison F. Richard Study Gallery offers a unique opportunity for self-directed engagement with both natural and human-made items.
Each semester, faculty collaborate with Museum staff to display objects relevant to their courses. This supports the Peabody’s efforts to experiment with curatorial approaches and spark interdisciplinary dialog across the University.
This course serves as an introduction to drawing, emphasizing the use of space and arrangement of visual objects. Sessions are focused on creating drawings based on close observation. Class projects use historical and recent artistic practice as a resource to address challenges in drawing technique.
Photo credit: Andy Melien / Yale Peabody Museum
This display explores the importance of forming and testing hypotheses in evolutionary biology through specimens with more complicated evolutionary tales than researchers originally assumed.
Photo credit: Andy Melien / Yale Peabody Museum
This course explores the interaction of plants and people throughout history from biological, historical, anthropological, and artistic perspectives.
Photo credit: Andy Melien / Yale Peabody Museum
Examining gothic novels from the 18th and 19th centuries alongside 20th and 21st-century films, this course explores the historical origins and deep cultural legacy of literary responses to the so-called Age of Reason.
Photo credit: Andy Melien / Yale Peabody Museum