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This morning, while checking my messages and reading a few things, I noticed this article at the Smithsonian website. It is about the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven. I personally have been there only once and always had a sense that its a very important museum for Connecticut and perhaps all of New England too. What I was completely unaware of is the importance of this place nationwide. The Smithsonian did a wonderful piece bringing to light another important reason to visit this place.

The "Sistine Chapel of Evolution" Is in New Haven, Connecticut

A few excerpts:

When visitors go to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, they are not exactly wrong to think that dinosaurs are the stars of the show. This is, after all, the museum that discovered Stegosaurus, Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus and Atlantosaurus, among others.

So why on earth go to the Peabody for any reason other than dinosaurs? One answer: for the fossil, mammal and bird discoveries that most visitors miss, but which Charles Darwin himself considered the best evidence for the theory of evolution in his lifetime.

The museum is currently raising funds to undertake a dramatic updating of both the Great Hall of Dinosaurs and the Hall of Mammals. (Brontosaurus will no longer drag its tail and Stegosaurus will do combat with Allosaurus.) But it’s worth going now because the outdated displays and the dinosaur reconstructions are somehow evocative of another era in paleontology.

1. Have you visited the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History? (answer in the poll)

2. What was your impression of the place? Did it surpassed your expectations?

3. Do you think its a must see attraction for tourists that visit our state?

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History