Museums
Peabody Museum houses an impressive collection documenting the material culture of science from the early modern period to today. Eighteenth-century highlights include European and American microscopes, telescopes, electrical machines and demonstration apparatus.
Primary Contact: Paola Bertucci, Associate Professor of History and History of Medicine; Curator of the History of Science and Technology Division, Peabody Museum; Director of Graduate Studies HSHM
peabody.collections@yale.edu
1(203) 432-1397
http://peabody.yale.edu/collections/historical-scientific-instruments
The collections of the YCBA, a public art museum and research institute for the study of British art and culture, are particularly strong in the 18th century, including paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, rare books, and manuscripts. The YCBA’s Reference Library, Prints & Drawings Study Room, and Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, all provide direct research assistance to students and scholars.
Primary Contact: Martina Droth, Deputy Director for Research and Education, Yale Center for British Art
ycba.reference@yale.edu
203-432-2545
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments acquires, preserves, and exhibits musical instruments from antiquity to the present, including numerous European and American examples from the 18th century. Instruments are featured in demonstration and live performance throughout the academic year.
Primary Contact: Susan Thompson, Curator, Yale Collection of Musical Instruments
musinst@yale.edu
1(203)432-0823
The Yale University Art Gallery is particularly rich in 18th-century prints by the great Italian triumvirate, Tiepolo, Canaletto, and Piranesi, as well as French etchings and complex color prints, and works by the protean genius Goya. Choice paintings and sculpture include works by Trevisani, Pannini, Tiepolo, Bellotto, and Houdon.
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artgalleryinfo@yale.edu
1(203)432-0628