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Latest Stories

  • Haiti in the Age of Revolutions: Lafargue Rigaud’s Portraits of Independence

    Paintings of Haiti’s revolutionary leaders that have not been shown since the 1880s are on display at the Yale Peabody Museum. 

  • Museum trade

    Yale Peabody Museum and the University of Alaska Museum of the North swapped a sled-dog legend for thousands of treeshrews, bamboo rats, and microbats

  • New species of sawfly described

    Inspired by a trip to the Green River Formation, Leah Mock, a Yale junior, explored the Peabody’s collections and found Anoplonyx rasnitsyni.

  • Edward P. Bass Distinguished Lecture: Miriam Horn

    Miriam Horn, author of Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller, a preeminent field biologist, will deliver a talk on his life.

    • Exhibitions

    About Time

    We usually measure time with a clock or calendar. What can fossils, plants, meteorites, and animals tell us about time?

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Here you can catch up with recent Peabody events and mentions, or learn about the groundbreaking academic research and the brilliant scientists at Yale who help make the Peabody a world-class scientific institution.

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