In celebration of the Peabody s 150th anniversary year, a gorgeously illustrated tour of the museum s renowned scientific collections
Founded in 1866 with a generous gift from international financier George Peabody, the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University has for 150 years acquired, studied, protected, and displayed its ever-expanding collections. Among the museum s 13,000,000 items are iconic fossils, striking ethnographic pieces, historical flora, and extinct species a remarkable record of the history of Earth, its life, and its cultures. More than mere curios, these...