During the dedication ceremony for the newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum this week, President Peter Salovey mused over which part of campus serves as Yale’s front door to the world. Is it the ...

Yale ecologist David Skelly will take a one-year sabbatical from his role as director of the Yale Peabody Museum, beginning on July 1, to pursue research on the evolutionary responses of biodiversity ...

Scientists have learned a lot about dinosaurs over the past 150 years. We now know that they laid colored eggs and some dinosaurs had feathers, to name a few fun facts. The latest discoveries in ...

One of the nation's oldest continuously operating museums has named Lynda Roscoe Hartigan its first female director in its 221-year history. The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, announced ...

It seems intuitive that a museum affiliated with a university should have classrooms. But in the case of the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut, it took over 100 years for learning spaces ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — It was one year ago New Haven’s Yale Peabody Museum opened its doors again after a massive four-year renovation. It was a complete overhaul of the 159-year-old museum. “The ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — For the first time, the Yale Peabody Museum will exhibit collections celebrating the living cultures of Pacific Islander communities. Museum leaders announced Monday that ...

Edmonia Lewis virtually vanished from history when she died in 1907. A new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum teases out the mysteries of Lewis's life while showcasing her marble sculptures.

A Witch’s Brew of an Exhibit Enters the Modern Age in Salem The “Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming” exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum draws parallels between the country’s most ...

The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology returned five Greenlandic Inuit mummies to Denmark last week, five years after their repatriation was first requested by Danish authorities. The ...