The Peabody Museum of Natural History

Posted in   Dinosaurs, Museums   on  November 7, 2022 by  Dinoman ,  0

One of the oldest and largest 

natural history museums on Earth 

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The Peabody Museum of Natural History. Here because of a famous palaeontologist who pestered his uncle, George Peabody, to stump up the money for a museum. The famous palaeontologist was none other than Othniel Charles Marsh of the Bone Wars fame, and Uncle George, being a generous man, found the money and immortality as a result. O.C. Marsh got the job of director and we got an amazing museum stuffed full of some of the most important palaeontological specimens ever found. Not to mention a pile of other non-palaeontological artefacts which are worth a look when you visit the museum.

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More seriously, the Peabody is one of the oldest and largest natural history museums on Earth and is attached to Yale University. It has a Great Hall of Dinosaurs including a baby Brontosaurus and a 110 foot (34 metre) long mural called ‘The Age of Reptiles.’

It is home to one of the largest and most extensive collections of fossils in the USA, important not only from a palaeontological point of view, but also historically, as many of the fossils were collected during the golden age of American palaeontology. Other famous names in palaeontology attached to the museum are R.S. Lull, George Gaylord Simpson, John Ostrom, Elisabeth Vrba, and Jacques Gauthier.

It is located at 170 Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, United States in a more modern building than that built by Mr Peabody, having moved there in 1925.

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An extract from the "Age of Reptiles" Mural in the Peabody Museum of Natural History

If you get there before we do, we would love to see some pics - post them up on the DinoZone Facebook page for us all to see.

Plan Your Visit

Address

170 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT 06520, United States

Tel:+1 203 432 8987 

Hours

Currently closed for renovations

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gerald Davie is the Dinoman. He is a professional geologist with a passion for palaeontology and earth history.  When he isn't consulting, he spends his time travelling locally and abroad, and there is always a geological component to his trips.  He is the owner of the only Tyrannosaurus skeleton in the Southern Hemisphere, to be seen at the DinoZone Museum and Geo Centre.

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