In middle age he had taken up hunting, and, at age 66, bagged a 450-kilo Kodiak bear, which he donated to the Yale Peabody Museum.

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In middle age he had taken up hunting, and, at age 66, bagged a 1, 000-pound Kodiak bear, which he donated to the Yale Peabody Museum.

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And a team led by Dolores Piperno of the Smithsonian Institution and Ehud Weiss of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University has just announced that they have found evidence of cereal grinding at the site.

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Visit the Yale University Art Gallery, which houses more than 185, 000 pieces of international and American art, or the Peabody Museum of Natural History, which displays mounted apatosaurus and stegosaurus dinosaur bones in its great hall.

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The collection was the basis for the Peabody Essex Museum that subsequently also reflects Salem's rich maritime history.

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The remainder of the Herwitz collection resides at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.

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There are a covey of witch museums around town, including the world-class Peabody Essex Museum, which houses 552 original documents on the Salem witch trial.

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Considering the Peabody Essex Museum's origins in the 1799 founding of the East India Marine Society by Salem sea captains, the 2001 gift of the collection to this museum seems especially appropriate.

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Mr. Monroe says that the Peabody Essex has been able to go its own way because it has tightly linked its financial game plan with the museum's strategy, which is founded on insights that date to the 1990s.

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