Yale Peabody Museum
…On the Road

Is your organization holding a public program?
Are you within a 25-mile radius of the Peabody Museum?

The Peabody’s docents will come to your public event with their educational kits.
It’s exciting and interactive!

Choose from: Science Kit | Anthropology Kit | Rocks and Minerals Kit

Contact us below for more information.

Science Kit

How would you like your visitors to—

• Touch a replica of a T. rex tooth?
  
• Feel black bear fur?
  
• Compare the skulls of a deer, bear and beaver?
  
• Look a tarantula in the eyes (you have 2, it has 8)?
  

Anthropology Kit

Our new interactive kit “How Cultures Carry Things” compares how people around the world carry things now and in the past. You can actually try out the artifacts in this kit to see how they are used. Among the 20 artifacts are:

• A tiffin picnic set from India
  
• A shoulder pole from Vietnam
  
• A Woodland Indian travois
  
• A South American holder for blow-pipe darts made of monkey skin and bamboo
  
• And many other exciting artifacts.
  

Rocks and Minerals Kit

Is there really a difference between rocks and minerals?

Do I really put a mineral on my food to make it taste better or on my toothbrush to make my teeth brighter?

Peabody’s new On the Road Rocks and Minerals kit will answer these questions and many, many more. This exciting new collection is full of rock and mineral specimens to examine and hands-on activities that will surprise you and open up a whole new world that has been right under your feet all the time!

See and touch:

• A rock that floats on water
  
• Petrified wood
  
• Fluorescent materials
  
• Crystals of many colors and shapes
  
• Learn about everyday uses of rocks and minerals
  

 

They Can!

Experience it all through our new Peabody On the Road program.

Contact us and the Yale Peabody Museum’s trained volunteers will come to your public program with more than 20 hands-on specimens and objects for children and adults to touch and explore, and to answer questions about natural history, world cultures and the Peabody Museum.

At right: Trish O'Leary Treat explains specimens in the Science Kit for the Peabody’s On the Road program.

The Yale Peabody Museum congratulates the Peabody Museum Associates Council on receiving the 2007 Building Bridges on Higher Plateaus Award from the Greater New Haven Association of Volunteer Administrators for its Peabody on the Road Outreach Program. This award recognizes a non-profit organization that has developed an innovative and successful volunteer program or event that engages volunteers in creative ways to advance the organization’s mission and goals and contribution to the greater community. Spearheaded by Evelyn Duffner, Peabody on the Road introduces natural history specimens and cultural artifacts to audiences throughout the New Haven area. Congratulations also to Associates Council President Sheila Stiles Jewell on being honored with the AVA Leadership Award.	Evelyn Duffner (on left) with Peabody Volunteer Coordinator Jenny Briggs.

For more information contact:

Volunteer Office
203.432.3731
Fax 203.432.9816
peabody.volunteers@yale.edu

Or register online or download and print a registration form [PDF 155 KB] and mail your completed form to the Volunteer Office at the address below.

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