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Peabody Museum of Natural History
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Peabody Museum of Natural History
The
Peabody Museum of Natural History
at
Yale University
is among the oldest, largest, and most prolific university
natural history museums
in the world. It was founded by the
philanthropist
George Peabody
in 1866 at the behest of his nephew
Othniel Charles Marsh
, the early
paleontologist
. Most known to the public for its Great Hall of Dinosaurs, which includes a mounted juvenile
Brontosaurus
and the long mural,
The Age of Reptiles
; it also has permanent exhibits dedicated to
human
and
mammal
evolution
;
wildlife
dioramas
,
Egyptian
artifact
s; and the
birds
,
minerals
and
Native Americans
of
Connecticut
.
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