Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
(
www.yale.edu
)
Each year, thousands of high-school students make pilgrimages to Yale,
nursing dreams of attending the country's third-oldest university, which boasts such not-
able alumni as Noah Webster, Eli Whitney, Samuel Morse, and Presidents William H
Taft, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and George W Bush. You don't need to share the
students' ambitions in order to take a stroll around the campus, just pick up a map at the
visitors center
(
www.yale.edu/visitor
;
cnr Elm & Temple Sts;
9am-4:30pm Mon-Fri, 11am-4pm
Sat & Sun)
or join a free, one-hour guided tour.
Yale University Art Gallery
MUSEUM
( 203-432-0600;
artgallery.yale.edu
; 1111 Chapel St; 10am-5pm Tue-Fri, 11am-5pm Sat & Sun)
America's oldest university art museum boasts American masterworks by Edward
Hopper and Jackson Pollock, as well as a superb European collection that includes Vin-
cent van Gogh's
The Night Café
.
Peabody Museum of Natural History
MUSEUM
(
203-432-5050;
www.yale.edu/peabody
; 170 Whitney Ave; adult/child $9/5;
10am-5pm
Mon-Sat, noon-5pm Sun;
)
Wannabe paleontologists will be thrilled by the dinosaurs
here.
Yale Center for British Art
MUSEUM
( 203-432-2800;
ycba.yale.edu
;
1080 Chapel St; 10am-5pm Tue-Sat, noon-5pm Sun)
The most comprehensive British art collection outside the UK.
Sleeping
Hotel Duncan
HISTORIC HOTEL$
( 203-787-1273;
www.hotelduncan.net
;
1151 Chapel St; s/d $60/80; )
Though the shine has
rubbed off this New Haven gem it's the enduring features that still make it worth a stay,
including the handsome lobby and the hand-operated elevator. Check out the wall in the
manager's office, filled with autographed pictures of celebrity guests such as Jodie Foster
and Christopher Walken.
Study at Yale
HOTEL$$$
$$$
( 203-503-3900;
www.studyhotels.com
;
1157 Chapel St; r $219-359; )
The Study at Yale
manages to evoke '
Mad Men
chic' without being over the top. Ultra-contemporary
touches include in-room iPod docking stations and cardio machines with built-in televi-
