Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History Landing Page Feature Image (a collage of specimens from JWPMNH including gem quality beryl crystal, an enrolled trilobite, Shelley the Glyptodon's head, Labradorite, a cone shell, a pyrite, an ammonite, a theliderma metanevra, an oeningen leaf fossil).

Tucked away in the middle of Middletown,  are roomfuls of deep time…

“… not much bigger than a large living room, [but] houses enough material for a space 10 times its size…”

Atlas Obscura, 2019

AS THE WORLD TURNS

From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19, world wars and a new millenium, Greg the Bison (pictured to the right) has seen it all. But he still loves keeping abreast of the latest happenings. Find the latest natural history news in Middletown here! 

(Also, click on Greg to see his story~)

Greg the Bison
Copper Beech Tree Slab

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Contact Us:

Ellen Thomas – 860-685-2238 – Monmouth Smith Curator of Paleontology of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History; ethomas@wesleyan.edu

Johan C. Varekamp – 860-685-2248 –Monmouth Smith Curator of Mineralogy and Petrology of the Joe Webb Peoples Museum of Natural History; jvarekamp@wesleyan.edu

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Labradorite fromt he JWPMNH Mineral Collection

 

 

Joe Webb Peoples

Museum of Natural History

 

Exley Science Center

Fourth Floor

265 Church St

Middletown, CT 06459

United States of America

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