Yale University, New Haven
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On the university campus are the Peabody Museum (natural history; Dinosaur Hall), the Art Gallery (with important finds from Mesopotamia), the Reinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (whose principal treasure is a Gutenberg Bible), the Sterling Memorial Library (4 million volumes; archives of the University) and the Center for British Art (particularly art of the 16th-19th c.). Popular with children (and with adults) are the Children's Museum and the Shoreline Trolley Museum (old streetcars).
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Peabody Museum of Natural History
The Peabody Museum of Natural History features exhibits on biology, paleontology, botany, geology, and anthropology. Specific attractions include the Great Hall of Dinosaurs, the Hall of Native American Cultures, Mexico to Peru, Peoples of the Pacific, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, Mineral Hall, Mammal Hall, and The Hall of Connecticut Birds.
Yale University Art Gallery
This extensive collection at Yale University Art Gallery includes Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Italian, European, Asian and African art from many cultures, with impressionist, modernist, and contemporary paintings and sculptures. There are also changing exhibits from a selection of over 30,000 master prints, drawings, and photographs.The Gallery was established in 1832 and is the oldest university art museum in the United States.
Collection of Musical Instruments
The Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments began in 1900, when Morris Steinert donated his private collection, which consisted mainly of keyboard instruments. The collection has continued to grow and is now one of the world's most important repositories of musical instruments.The museum contains almost 1,000 instruments and accessories.
Sterling Memorial Library
The Sterling Memorial Library features fifteen stack levels and eight floors of reading rooms with more than 4 million volumes, manuscripts and Yale Archives. It also contains Babylonian tablets which are not on display but may be viewed by prior arrangement.The building itself was built in the 1930's as a memorial to John William Sterling who was a major financial contributor to Yale.
Yale Center for British Arts
The Yale Center for British Art displays British paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, and other pieces, from the Elizabethan period to modern day.Also located here is the Center's Department of Rare Books with some 20,000 volumes.
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