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Highlights Tours
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Yale and New Haven
Come Explore the Yale Peabody Museum!
Highlights Tours: Dinosaurs to Egypt
Highlights Tours begin in the Museum’s main lobby and move through the exhibition halls, stopping at some of our most exciting and popular displays.
Every Saturday and Sunday
at 12:30 and 1:30 pm
Highlight tours in Spanish
are given on request.
Contact the Volunteer Office.
InfoTape 203.432.5050
Current recorded information about what’s happening at the Yale Peabody Museum.
These 45-minute tours of the Yale Peabody Museum’s exhibition halls are led by one of our specially trained volunteer docents.
Learn, among other things, about the history behind the founding of the Yale Peabody Museum, O.C. Marsh’s expeditions to the American West, the hunting abilities of the polar bear, and the significance of mummification during the Egyptian Old Kingdom.
If you’ve ever wanted to bring your friends and family for a casual visit to the Yale Peabody Museum, this is the time to do it!
At right: Jeff Cochrane leading
a tour in the Great Hall.
For further information on the Highlights Tours, and to make advance arrangements for groups, contact:
203.432.3775
(between 8:30 a.m. and Noon weekdays)
Fax 203.432.9816
peabody.education@yale.edu
Call our InfoTape 203.432.5050 for current recorded information about what’s happening at the Yale Peabody Museum.
Highlights Tours Volunteers
Training sessions for new and experienced Highlights Tour volunteers are given periodically. Registration is required. If you are interested in becoming a Highlights Tour docent, contact:
Jennifer Briggs
Volunteer Coordinator
203.432.3731
Fax 203.432.9816
peabody.volunteers@yale.edu
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