Fossil Fragments: The Riddle of Human Origins

Fossil Fragments: The Riddle of Human Origins, a new permanent exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum, tells the story of the continuing scientific search for our ancestry, and of what we know of different kinds of humans that once lived in the distant past. The exhibition presents a wealth of information and fossil material on the evolution of our human ancestors.

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Discovery Room

Permanent exhibition

Image Above: Photo by Alex Wild The Discovery Room is one of the most popular destinations at the Yale Peabody Museum, visited by more than 60,000 people a year. Full of touchable specimens and...

The Great Hall

Permanent exhibition

The Great Hall of Dinosaurs is the centerpiece of the Yale Peabody Museum. Featuring skeletons from the Museum’s world-renowned paleontology collections, it is also home to   Rudolph...

The Hall of Native American Cultures

Permanent exhibition

The Hall of Native American Cultures showcases 360 objects from the Peabody’s substantial Native American collections in the   Division of Anthropology.   The latest installations of...

The Hall of Mammalian Evolution

Permanent exhibition

Image Above: The Otisville Mastodon (skull) Mammut americanus YPM catalog no. 12600 The fossils in this hall, from the Yale Peabody Museum’s collections in the Division of Vertebrate...

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