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n e w h a v e n b i z . c o m | M a r c h 2 0 2 0 | n e w h a v e n B I Z 39 Continued on Page 40 • Tax Abatement • Permit Waivers • Grants • Free Business Counseling Program through the Business Assistance Center • Redevelopment Services • Brownfield Program: Assessment and Remediation Assistance • Workforce Development Programs For further Information go to www.hamden-ct.com For all Hamden's Offerings contact Dale Kroop at 203-287-7033 or dkroop@hamden.com • Space and Programs for Start-ups and other Small Businesses • Co-work Space • Business Mentoring and Other Professional Services • Programs for Micro-enterprise Development, Workforce Development Community Sustainability and Economic Inclusiveness For further Information go to www.borough496.com BOROUGH496 (The Hamden Business Incubator) Town Business Incentive Program THE TOWN OF HAMDEN OFFERS AN EXTENSIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM and visitors. e Dinosaur and Mammal Halls closed in December, but the other galleries, including the gem and mineral gallery, David Friend Hall, will be open to the public through this June 30. When it reopens, the Peabody's vertebrate paleontology collection — home of the first Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus and Triceratops known to science — will continue to be one of the most scientifically signif- icant collections in the world. "We received a $160 million lead gi, which was beyond generous and unprecedented," Peabody Director David Skelly says. ough he says Yale doesn't discuss project costs, he did say there was still a "little ways to go" to achieve the full funding, so he's been spending a lot of his time on the road, appealing for donations from alumni, Yale clubs and philanthropists in the broader community. Skelly says. "I ask myself, 'Why is the public coming in the doors? Why is the faculty using these collections?' e answer is to gain access to natural history in a compelling way that helps us understand that the world is made of objects that are evidence to scientists. People show up to places like ours for a moment that can't happen anywhere else." e Peabody typically displays only about 0.04 percent of the ob- jects in its collection. e remain- der, notes Skelly, could fill multiple other museums with objects that visitors want to see. "Most of the collection are items that people don't want to see, but are import- ant to scientific research, which is the real purpose of the museum," Skelly notes. e new Peabody will feature next-gen Bluetooth headset systems that put the visitors in the driver's seat. In addition to signage describ- ing each display, the headsets will sense the angle of the visitor's head and what they are viewing to queue narrative about that display. New and larger spaces will be available for the Yale community, includ- ing classrooms, a study gallery, student-curated exhibition space and a research studio. Dedicated spaces for the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Max Planck Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement & Global Change will bring together students and faculty from across academic departments to collaborate on environmental research. e 1926 main building will also be insulated. Carol DeNatale, the museum's project director, is overseeing col- laboration between Yale, the muse- um, architects and contractors. "My real job is to make sure that the Peabody Museum as an institution gets the functionality and the requirements out of the building itself that are paramount to their program," she explains. Dino-mite: Many of the Peabody's signature dinosaurs are on their way to Ontario to be remounted. But not the life-sized Torosaurus latus, the 7,350-pound bronze behemoth that menaces Whitney Avenue. New Haven's Source for Business News newhavenBIZ

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