Galleries & Collections
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From paintings by Picasso to the Great Hall of Dinosaurs to a 1689 tenor viol, Yale's treasures are accessible to the community they enrich and available for everything from casual observation to intensive scholarly research. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, founded in 1866, contains one of the great scientific collections in North America. The exhibition areas feature the Museum's anthropological and ornithological collections, a renowned paleontological exhibit that includes a large mounted Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus), a variety of displays surveying the animal, vegetable, and mineral worlds, and a series of dioramas illustrating a range of North American environments. The Pulitzer Award-winning mural 'The Age of Reptiles' (the best-known painting of dinosaurs in the world) adorns one wall of the Hall of Dinosaurs and remains one of the Peabody's greatest attractions. Public exhibition, research, and teaching intersect in this working museum which is host to workshops and laboratories in the fields of paleontology, archaeology, zoology, and evolutionary biology. The Peabody is also a rich source of science education for New Haven and the surrounding community, and its many outreach programs are among the principal ways by which Yale serves the public. |
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Bequeathed to the University by the late Paul Mellon (Yale '29), the Yale Center for British Art houses the most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. Its holdings include masterpieces by such British artists as Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, Constable, Turner, and Blake. British sporting art, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Camden Town School, the Bloomsbury Group, as well as more recent British artistic movements are well represented. The museum's collections of prints, drawings, and rare books and its reference library are available for public consultation. The Center is the final building designed by American architect Louis I. Kahn (1901-1974). Its sister institution, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, serves as the home of the Yale-in-London Program.
Since its founding in 1832, the Yale University Art Gallery has enjoyed steady growth. At present, its collections number over 80,000 objects from around the world, ranging from the art of ancient Egypt to masterpieces from present day artists. Among the highlights are works by van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Hopper, Homer, Eakins, and many contemporary artists. Represented as well are notable collections of Etruscan and Greek vases, early Italian paintings, and Asian art. The Art Gallery's American paintings and decorative arts collections are among the finest in the world. The Art Gallery maintains a rigorous schedule of special exhibitions, educational programs, gallery talks, lectures, films, and symposia and is the site of extensive scholarly research in the history of art and museum training for graduate and undergraduate students.
