Peabody Museum of Natural History
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The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University is one of the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world. It was founded by the philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othniel Charles Marsh, an early paleontologist. The museum is best known for the Great Hall of Dinosaurs, which includes a mounted juvenile Brontosaurus and the 110-foot-long (34 m) mural The Age of Reptiles. The museum also has permanent exhibits dedicated to human and mammal evolution; wildlife dioramas; Egyptian artifacts; local birds and minerals; and Native Americans of Connecticut.
Entrance to the Peabody Museum
Full-scale sculpture of Torosaurus
The Great Hall of Dinosaurs (1981-2007) includes the mural, The Age of Reptiles
Giant squid inside the entrance hall
George Peabody
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George Peabody was an American financier and philanthropist. He is often considered the father of modern philanthropy.
Peabody in c. 1850
Peabody's birthplace, now the George Peabody House Museum, in Peabody, Massachusetts
The Peabody Trust continues to provide cheap housing in central London. This sign marks the Horseferry Road Estate in Westminster.
The first block of Peabody dwellings in Commercial Street, Spitalfields, London. A wood-engraving published in the Illustrated London News in 1863, shortly before the building opened.