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Yale Peabody Museum

Dan Antion
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I’m taking a short break from the series on the Nationality Rooms at the University of Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning to share doors from a recent visit to the Peabody Museum at Yale University. The Cathedral of Learning is across the street from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Student’s enjoyed free admission, and I visited often. I love natural history museums.

The doors in a lot of these photos aren’t the main event, but they are there.

I hope you enjoy the photos in the gallery. I also hope you will take a few minutes to visit the sites of the other participants. We get a lot of wonderful doors here each week. If you can’t get there today, swing back on Sunday for the Weekly Recap — all the doors in an easy to navigate table.

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Inside the museum entrance.
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Inside the museum entrance.
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The archways on the left lead to student galleries.
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Large display areas and more to come.
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The Yale Peabody Museum
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No doors here, but it’s an opossum ❤️
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This was the largest skeleton on display. It was hard to get it in the frame.
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Looking down on the big guy.
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On our way to the next exhibit area.
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The Yale Peabody Museum
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Message received.
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Cyclotron vacuum chamber
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Science and glass display
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In 2018, Bass pledged $160 million to refurbish the Peabody Museum.
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I always like seeing furniture doors. This was a professor’s desk. I imagine it bulging with papers.
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Beautiful door inside the museum/

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56 responses to “Yale Peabody Museum”

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  2. bushboy Avatar
    bushboy

    That is a cool museum Dan. All you could expect and more. Was there a Sherman room to go with Mr Peabody?

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I’m glad somebody mentioned that, Brian. I honestly can’t even say the name without my mind drifting to Mr. Peabody and Sherman. In a sense, it is kind of a Wayback Machine. It was a cool museum.

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  3. restlessjo Avatar
    restlessjo

    It looks fairly ordinary from outside, Dan, but they’ve done wonderful things with the interior. I particularly like your first shot. Happy Thursday! xx

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      It’s funny that you mention that, Jo. The building seems much larger inside than I expected when we walked up to it. I imagined a somewhat cramped space, but it was totally the opposite.

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        restlessjo

        A great design feature, Dan xx

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  6. scooj Avatar
    scooj

    Great post – I used to go frequently to London’s Natural History Museum when I was growing up, and it reinforced my lifelong relationship with nature, personally and professionally. I, too, love natural history museums and will make a point of visiting them on my travels. Some nice museum doors, and I love the furniture doors too.

    A trip to the High Atlas mountains from me this week: https://scooj.org/2025/11/20/thursday-doors-20-november-2025-marrakesh-doors-excursion-to-sti-fadma-in-the-ourika-river-valley-high-atlas/#HighAtlas#Mountains#Morocco

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      Dan Antion

      I’ve been to these kinds of museums in a lot of cities, but I’d never been to this one. It was a fun visit and I enjoyed the various displays.

      Great post from the mountains. I hope you have a nice weekend.

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  7. Sheree Avatar
    Sheree

    Fine selection of doors and dinosaurs

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      Dan Antion

      Thanks Sheree!

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  9. Smitha V Avatar
    Smitha V

    Hi Dan, This looks like a super fun museum to visit. Is that a spider on the ceiling on the way to the student galleries?
    I’m participating after a really long time. This is my post. https://smithavpennings.com/2025/11/20/thankful-thursdays-20-11-25-thursday-doors-book-reviews/

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Hi Smitha. It’s good to see you again. I think that’s some sort of tortoise hanging up there. Spider or tortoise, it’s not something I would have liked meeting up with in the wild.

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      1. Smitha V Avatar
        Smitha V

        Ha ha… Yes.. I’m extremely scared of creepy crawly creatures.
        I’m happy to be back here again🙂

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  10. Oddment Avatar
    Oddment

    What a beautiful place — and in so many ways! I love the blend of colors in the exterior as you show it in your photos, and that glass display is especially inviting. I am reminded of childhood trips to the Field Museum in Chicago, though in my memory it didn’t compare with the Peabody. You sure got some great doors there!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I’m glad you enjoyed this. The museum seemed larger on the inside than I thought it would be from outside. The amazing thing is that admission was free. We wandered around all three floors, and I was happy to find the science section (where that glass display was).

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  11. Teresa Avatar
    Teresa

    Looks like a mighty fine building. Here is my entry https://wanderingteresa.com/sheds-doors-shadows/

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Teresa. And thanks for sharing the interesting buildings.

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  12. robbiesinspiration Avatar
    robbiesinspiration

    These are great doors, Dan 🌸

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      Dan Antion

      Thanks Robbie.

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  15. Ritva Sillanmäki Photography Avatar
    Ritva Sillanmäki Photography

    So many lovely details, arches, skeletons and history. Here is mine https://sillarit.com/2025/11/20/rustic-doorway/

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      Dan Antion

      It was a fun visit. Your doorway is so interesting.

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  17. Sofia Alves Avatar
    Sofia Alves

    I had a chuckle at the alarmed door, Dan. You’d be surprised to the number of people that ignores such message at my work…!

    Here is mine:

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I think someone ignored it, or tested it, while we were still in the building.

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  18. wrookieschu Avatar
    wrookieschu

    Looks great Dan. I love your outside shot with the blue sky and autumn leaves. https://wrookieschu.com/2025/11/20/doors-of-wordpress-v144/

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      Dan Antion

      Thanks Wayne. It was a beautiful autumn day. They had predicted rain, but the sun won out over the clouds.

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  19. Suzette Benjamin Avatar
    Suzette Benjamin

    I love museums! Wonderful opening feature photo, and the photo of the outside of the Peabody Museum is superb.

    Great photo of the largest exhibit; I would say you captured the whole thing very well. Love to see the amount of support in the ceiling for this particular display and the lighting…spectacular. And great view from above shot! Is there a second floor of exhibits too, or was that a gallery platform from which you took the photo from the top “looking down at the big guy.”

    The possum display with her babies on her back is so awesome!
    Love the glass display and the gothic style of the doors reminiscent of a cathedral, particularly your excellent angled photo of the Bass award of appreciation on the arched portal.

    Lovely travel alongside photos, Dan. I enjoyed the visit to the Peabody Museum.

    P.S. Everything looks so new; I assumed perhaps in error that this was one of the oldest natural history museums in the US.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Suzette. I think everything looks new due to the infusion of millions of dollars by Mr. Bass.

      The museum has exhibits on three floors, with that one opening down to the dinosaur exhibit. I, too, was studying the supports for that skeleton. I always try to imagine how things were built.

      I took the picture of the possum to send my wife from the museum. She loves those little guys. We keep hoping to see the one that lives around here carrying babies.

      The museum seemed larger inside than the outside would indicate. I can’t quite figure out the illusion.

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    JosieHolford

    A nice pairing for a museum: New York City firehouse: https://www.josieholford.com/engine-no-47-thursday-doors/

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks! That was a lovely and informative post.

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  21. Dave Astor Avatar
    Dave Astor

    A vivid variety of doors, Dan!

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      Thanks Dave. I’m glad yo liked it.

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  22. Violet Lentz Avatar
    Violet Lentz

    I find the build out on the brick of the building itself intriguing. Do you suppose that would be called a façade or is there a better terminology? Great journey.

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      From what I’ve read, the museum was built in the French Gothic Revival style to complement the other buildings on Yale’s campus. It’s hard to tell from these photos, but that brickwork is a feature of the construciton.

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    Frank Hubeny

    I especially liked the photo of the cyclotron vacuum chamber.

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      Dan Antion

      I love that photo, Frank.

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  24. Murphy’s Law Avatar
    Murphy’s Law

    What a beautiful museum! So spacious. That’s a grand entrance. Love the opossum family! The large skeleton is awesome. Imagine one of those creatures trying to maneuver in one of our cities today!

    The science and glass display is both beautiful and intriguing. You captured lots of great doors and the professor’s desk is grand.

    This was a very enjoyable tour Dan. Thanks for letting me tag along.

    ginger🦋

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      Dan Antion

      I’m glad you could join us, Ginger.

      I love that desk, but I can’t imagine it ever looking like that when being used by the professor. I picture it looking more like my desk at the moment ;-)

      The opossum family is so cute. “Hang on kids, there’s a bump up ahead.”

      I was happy to find the science section.

      I hope you have a great weekend!

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  25. Author Jan Sikes Avatar
    Author Jan Sikes

    A fascinating tour of the Peabody Museum, Dan! That entrance is enough to stop me in my tracks. Thanks for sharing!

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      Dan Antion

      Thank Jan. It was a great place to spend a few hours.

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    memadtwo

    So many wonderful details in the architecture. And I like the way you always capture the light. (K)

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      Dan Antion

      Thanks Kerfe. Light in a museum is such an interesting element as it shines from so many directions and through so many things.

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    Majka

    Tiny doors and big doors | few words-uncountable colours

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  29. John W. Howell Avatar
    John W. Howell

    I noticed the longhorn skull on the Ed Bass plaque. Must be a nod to his birthplace of Fort Worth . Lovely photos, Dan

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    1. Dan Antion Avatar
      Dan Antion

      I think you’re probably right, John. Texas oilman who made a remarkably generous gift to this museum.

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  30. Liz Gauffreau Avatar
    Liz Gauffreau

    That’s a beautiful museum! It must be a real pleasure to walk through. I’m intrigued by the science and glass display.

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      Dan Antion

      I was happy to see that display, Liz. I remember being a chemistry major in undergraduate school and having to buy the glassware for one of many required labs. I thought books were expensive until I got that bill. You learned to take good care of that stuff. And, it really was just a usage fee — we didn’t get to take the glassware with us.

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  33. dennyho Avatar
    dennyho

    Many pretty details in the Peabody Museum and I especially am attracted to the Bass door with the commemoration statement. The arch surround is dramatic.

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