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If you have a chance to visit the Yale Peabody Museum you shouldn’t miss the opportunity. My parents took me here as a kid (50) years ago. I took my kids, and now I’m dragging my wife back again 20 years later. Actually I didn’t drag her. She was nice enough to go with me because the day we visited was my birthday. (ha,ha,ha). For those that have read previous posts Cheryl is completely burnt out on photography and museums thanks to my having taken her to so many in such a short period of time. Poor girl needs a cooling off period. (smile) Yes…..sad but true…..not everyone is infatuated with photography.
As with anything Yale does it’s top shelf. There are “permanent” halls that have been here for years as well as “temporary” halls that change from time to time. They allow photography and even flash, (if I recall correctly), everywhere except in the Samurai exhibit. I shot all my photo’s in available light so as not to be a nuisance to those around me. In addition the flash doesn’t play well with all the glass enclosures. Bear in mind that most of the photo’s you see were photographed through protective glass (including all the bird pic’s). I did my best to control the glare but couldn’t in some settings.
I captured a good majority of the offering but there were still halls that I didn’t photograph for the sake of time. So my post is not representative of everything they have to offer. In addition they have a nice gift shop which I also did not photograph. Personally I love the huge dinosaur that is upright and fully intact. The diorama’s, (re-creation of a natural setting which shows a specific moment in time), are so very well done and life like.
With the hundreds, or should I say, thousands of photo’s from other trips that I’ve yet to process and get on this blog I decided against indexing each photograph (like I had done in many other museum visits). I apologize that all the “birds of CT”, for example, were not named but I’ve only got so many hours in a day. Had to take the fat out somewhere.
Young or old, there is something here for everybody. Remember…bring that camera!
Located in New Haven at 170 Whitney Avenue, at the corner of Sachem Street, one block north of Trumbull Street.
The Yale Peabody Museum hours:
Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Sunday Noon to 5:00 pm
The Museum is closed on New Year’s Day, Easter Sunday, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.
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