Institution code YPM

Yale Peabody Museum

www.peabody.yale.edu

United States of AmericaNew Haven

13,000,000 specimens

Description

The Yale Peabody Museum's collections are available to legitimate researchers for scholarly use. Loans are issued to responsible individuals at established institutions. Loans and access to the collection can be arranged through the Collections Manager of the appropriate Division. http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/index.html

Code

YPM

Number of specimens in institution

13,000,000

Online Catalog/Database

https://peabody.yale.edu/explore/collections

Institutional disciplines

No information

Founding date

1866

Institution Type

Unknown

Collections

Name	Code	Description	Specimens
Botany	YU	Global Marchantiophyta & Bryophyta; North American Monilophyta; North American Spermatophyta, but particularly strong in northeastern North America and western United States. Global Marchantiophyta & Bryophyta; North American Monilophyta; North American Spermatophyta, but particularly strong...	360,000
Paleobotany	YPM	Of the more than 170,000 specimens in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Division of Paleobotany, 4,300 are type and illustrated specimens. The collection is worldwide in scope, with approximately 75% from North America and the remaining from the Arctic, Australia, Central America, Europe, Israel, Pakistan, ...	170,000
Entomology	YPM		0
Invertebrate Paleontology	YPM	The collections of the Yale Peabody Museum’s Division of Invertebrate Paleontology are among the largest in North America in geographic, stratigraphic, and taxonomic representation. There are an estimated 4.5 million specimens arranged in both stratigraphic and systematic collections, including more...	4,500,000
Cryofacility	YPM		0
Vertebrate Zoology	YPM		0
Herbarium	CBS		38,500
Vertebrate Paleontology	YPM		0
Invertebrate Zoology	YPM	The primary strengths of the Yale Peabody Museum’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology collections include large holdings of Western Atlantic invertebrates, especially deepwater forms, corals and other reef-dwelling animals from tropical localities, invertebrates from Bermuda, and a worldwide collectio...	0