Peabody Museum of Natural History Director David Skelly presented pictorial plans and conceptions for the $200 million renovation on site housing the collections numbering 13 million objects. New facilities shown included high tech interactive exhibits and classroom spaces to emphasize teaching as well as curating. As most senior professors at Yale, Dave teaches the introductory undergraduate course in his field:  Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,  in the Yale School of Environment. He showed the dismantling of the 65 foot brontosaurus underway and told of finding and employing the original scaffolding used in 1931 to mount the exhibit on a custom steel backbone.  Budget conscious, he told that the dismantling work was performed by a skeleton crew. 

David Skelly also discussed his work on the university commission to develop Yale’s strategy for Science in the coming decade, an important precursor for the next capital campaign.

See Wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Museum_of_Natural_History.

Program : 5:30 pm - Cocktails

6:00 pm - Presentation begins

7:00 pm - Discussion with serious hors d’oeuvres

35.00 Per Person

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