Dino Shindig with Bones from Yale Peabody Museum

The Yale Peabody Museum will visit, bringing fossils found in the Buckland section of Manchester in the nineteenth century. Visitors can see the actual dinosaur fossils and talk to Yale paleontologists. There will be fun activities for young and old. Throughout 2026, we feature the special exhibit Mathias Spiess Tour Book of Manchester: Dinosaurs, Podunks, Colonists, at our regular open houses 10:00 to 2:00 on the first Saturday of the month, May through December, and on CT Open Museum Day, Saturday, June 13.  The display features contributions from Mathias Spiess, a Manchester author, historian and poet along with the Yale Peabody Museum and the Lutz Children’s Museum, bringing together artifacts and displays.