By Steve Scarpa, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications
If there is an overarching story the Yale Peabody Museum tells, it is that nature is in a constant state of transformation. Brontosaurus goes extinct, but its relatives, birds, persist today as very different, but equally important creatures. Human cultures change over time. The rotation of the planet itself generates new patterns in nature.
The new case in the Peabody’s main lobby outside of the Burke Hall of Dinosaurs is called “A World in Motion,” and presents change over different timescales: a year, a lifetime, and millennia or millions of years. A few carefully selected objects demonstrate how seasonality, growth and decay, and mineralization and fossilization alter the planet.
The new case also offers an overture to what a visitor can expect to find in the Peabody’s galleries – unique animal specimens, plants and minerals, cultural objects and different ways of looking at the world.
Photos by Andrew Melien.
