As the new chair of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Paul Messier oversees research at the intersection of science and the humanities.
Established at Yale’s West Campus in 2013, the IPCH aims to preserve and interpret...
James Prosek ’97 B.A., an artist, writer, and naturalist, opens his new exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) with a mural in the museum’s lobby depicting a flock of passenger pigeons in silhouette flying through a forest of American...
The Stegosaurus that inhabited the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s Great Hall since 1925 has migrated to Canada. And it won’t be long before several of the spikey-tailed herbivore’s New Haven neighbors, including Brontosaurus, join it north of...
For 50 years, Yale’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM) archive has collected and preserved in-depth interviews with composers and musicians who have shaped America’s musical landscape.
The archive’s more than 3,000 audio and video recordings —...
“The Age of Reptiles” — the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s iconic panoramic mural depicting the lives and times of dinosaurs and other reptiles — is being prepped for what you might call the museum’s fast-approaching Age of Renovation.
Art...
Two wool blankets of vivid purple, red, green, and blue stretch like enormous wings across a wall at the Yale University Art Gallery. They are dotted with brightly stitched flying objects: hawks, herons, fighter jets, hot-air balloons, UFOs, even the...
Unless you work at, say, Yale, you’ve probably never seen anything like KGL 27. The sub-basement in the Kline Geology Laboratory (KGL) is packed floor-to-ceiling with masks, sculptures, and other objects from the South Pacific — materials belonging to the...
A historic ledger book on display at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library documents two milestones of Yale history in elegant copperplate script: the founding of the Yale School of Art and the first women admitted as students anywhere at Yale.
It...