Peabody Museum: FREE Admission and more for 150th Anniversary

Celebrate 150 years of the Peabody Museum with free admission to the galleries all day. From noon to 4:00 pm on October 8, 2016, enjoy birthday cake, live music, hands-on activities, and special appearances by rarely seen treasures. Those rare treasures include a bear claw necklace collected by Lewis & Clark and the museum’s famed Feejee mermaid. Visit the behind-the-scenes at the Zooarchaeology Lab. There you can touch and identify animal bones, including bones you may bring from home. The Peabody Museum invented North American anthropology.

This event is FREE and open to everyone. Plus, parking is FREE too at the 52 Oxford Street Garage–score! The Peabody Museum in located in Cambridge at 11 Divinity Avenue.

Peabody Museum 150th Anniversary schedule:

12:00–4:00 pm: Birthday Cake

Activities

12:00–4:00 pm For enthusiasts of all ages

Model a tiny replica of a human or animal head to adorn a Mesoamerican vessel
Handle antique plaster casts and make a color rubbing as a hieroglyphic souvenir
Try a unique tool to date the age of colonial-era excavations
Visit a working laboratory to identify animal bones associated with archaeological sites
Handle a spear thrower
“Please Touch” a changing array of curious objects, including a bear’s paw and a lantern slide viewer

Live Music Stroll the galleries to musical accompaniment.

12:00 pm Camelia Latin Jazz Band–Cuban, Brazilian, Bachata and other Latin rhythms punctuated with jazz solos
1:15 pm Nettukkusqk Singers–An intertribal trio of women from Wampanoag and Nipmuc homelands. They will perform traditional and contemporary songs accompanied by hand drums, rattles, and water drum.
2:45 pm Henry Acker Jazz Trio–A 12-year old guitar impresario heads a family trio that plays exhilarating jazz in the hot swing style of Django Reinhardt

Curator’s Choice Artifacts Curators bring out a rarely-seen treasure.