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While at Yale...

During your stay at Yale, you may choose to visit our exceptional Museums and Galleries.

Yale University Art Gallery http://artgallery.yale.edu/

The Yale University Art Gallery's permanent collection includes over 185,000 works, organized into ten curatorial areas: African Art, American Decorative Arts, American Paintings and Sculpture, Ancient Art, Art of the Ancient Americas, Asian Art, Coins and Medals, Early European Art, Modern and Contemporary Art and Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. The Gallery is located on Chapel at High Street. Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 am–5:00 pm; Thursday until 8:00 pm (Sept–June) Sunday 1:00–6:00 pm. Admission is free.

Yale Center for British Art http://ycba.yale.edu/index.asp

Presented to the university by Paul Mellon (Class of 1929)? the Yale Center for British Art houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The Center is located at 1080 Chapel Street. Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 5 pm; Sunday noon to 5 pm; Closed Mondays. Admission is free.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscripts Library http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/

Directions From the New Haven Green: walk north on College Street to Wall Street. Take a left on Wall Street. Enter the plaza on the right in the middle of the first block. The Beinecke Library is the large white marble and gray granite building facing east. Visitors hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Peabody Museum of Natural History http://www.peabody.yale.edu/

The Yale Peabody Museum was founded in 1866 with a gift from philanthropist George Peabody, at the urging of his nephew, Yale's O.C. Marsh, the first professor of paleontology in North America and the Museum's first director. Marsh built many of the Peabody's great collections, and today you can see some of his most famous finds — the dinosaurs he named Triceratops, Stegosaurus and “Brontosaurus” — in the Museum's Great Hall. Along with more than 11 million specimens and objects in anthropology, botany, zoology, paleontology, entomology, ornithology, and historical scienfic instruments in its collections, the Yale Peabody Museum is also home to Rudolph F. Zallinger's murals The Age of Reptiles and The Age of Mammals. The Museum is located at 170 Whitney Avenue.

Opening hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;Sunday, noon to 5 p.m.

Admission is free for meeting participants.

Collections of Musical Instruments http://www.yale.edu/musicalinstruments/

The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments is located in the heart of Yale's New Haven Campus on Hillhouse Avenue, once described by Charles Dickens as "the most beautiful street in America." Opening hours: Tuesday 1:00 to 4:00; Wednesday 1:00 to 4:00; Thursday 1:00 to 4:00. Closed in July and August. Admission is free.

Sterling Memorial Library http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/sml/

Housing approximately 4 million volumes, Sterling Memorial Library is the largest library on the Yale campus and serves as the center of the library system. Over the course of three hundred years, Yale has developed special collections of exceptional depth and diversity. Researchers from Yale and beyond are encouraged to explore the unique primary resources that combine with extraordinary secondary resources at Yale to make its holdings world-renowned. The library is located on 120 High Street. Summer Hours: Monday through Wednesday : 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Thursday : 8:30 a.m.-10:00 p.m.; Friday : 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Saturday : 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Sunday: closed

Beyond New Haven

Connecticut State Parks and Forests

http://dep.state.ct.us/stateparks/

Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center

http://www.ctbound.org/Travel/detail.asp?id=607

Old Lighthouse Museum

http://www.ctbound.org/Travel/detail.asp?id=475

Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration

http://www.mysticaquarium.org/

Mystic Seaport

http://www.ctbound.org/Travel/detail.asp?id=531

The Mark Twain House & Museum