Peabody Museum

Muybridge Zoetrope Film #10 "Leaping Horse" Detail

The family finally made the trip down to New Haven to visit the Peabody over the holidays. But first, we had lunch at Modern Apizza, which is THE best pizza in New Haven (my colleagues and I previously did a taste test, and it was unanimous). Then we spent a few hours at the Peabody. 

Following a transformative four-year renovation, the Yale Peabody Museum reopened on March 26, 2024, with rejuvenated galleries, reimagined exhibits, and refurbished dinosaurs. The exhibits are beautifully done and rival the quality of bigger museums, in my opinion. Admission is free and open to all. If you're ever in New Haven, CT, be sure to stop by!

Although there are three floors of dinosaurs, artifacts, and gems, I'm only going to share equus-related items, and maybe some deer-like skeletons in this brief post. 

Some of the exhibits, like the giant Brontosaurus, are permanent exhibits. Others, like the Mind/Matter: The Neuroscience of Perception, Attention, and Memory, are temporary. In this exhibit, I found this fantastic Muybridge series of a jumping horse. 

It was fun to use the zoetrope to see the filmstrip "in action" as it was intended.

Here are some closer detail shots of the filmstrip...

The rest of this post comes from the mammal displays. I only captured a fraction of it!

Mesohippus bairdii
early relative of the horse
from the South Dakota area

Hypertragulus calcaratus
Deer-like mammal, he was tiny!

Head of Orohippus Agilis

Orohippus Agilis
early relative of the horse
from the Wyoming area

This one was described as a deer-like mammal.

Other herbivore mammals