Cultural Opportunities
Yale University Art Gallery
The Yale Art Gallery is the oldest university art museum in North America, with a collection of more than 80,000 objects dating from ancient Egypt to the present. Highlights include early Italian paintings, masterpieces by van Gogh, Manet, Monet, and Picasso, as well as works by American artists from Copley to Pollock, and the renowned Garvan collection of American decorative arts. The Gallery has recently completed a reinstallation of its major collections. The Gallery is located at 1111 Chapel Street, 203.432.0600.
Peabody Museum of Natural History
The Peabody Museum houses world-famous collections in the fields of paleontology, zoology, and anthropology. Permanent exhibits include dinosaurs, fossilized mammals, dioramas of North American habitat groups, meteors and meteorites, and halls devoted to North American, Mesoamerican, ancient Egyptian, and Pacific Island cultures. Admission is free with a Yale ID card. The museum is located at 170 Whitney Avenue, 203.432.5050.
Yale Center for British Art
The Yale Center for British Art houses the most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. Its foundation is the gift of paintings, drawings, prints, rare books, manuscripts, and sculpture given to Yale University by Paul Mellon (Yale Class of 1929). The collection explores the development of British art, life, and thought from the Elizabethan period onward. The Center offers a year-round schedule of exhibitions and educational programs, including films, concerts, lectures, tours, and special events. Academic resources include the reference library and photo archive, the conservation laboratory, and a study room for examining prints, drawings, rare books, and manuscripts from the permanent collections. The Center is located at 1080 Chapel Street, 203.432.2800.
Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
Now in its 66th year, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, sponsored by the Yale Summer School of Music, brings the world's top chamber musicians to perform at the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate in Connecticut's Litchfield Hills.
