1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT, 06510
Phone: 203-432-2800
Toll-Free: 877-274-8278
All that makes Britain great on display at this all-encompassing art museum
Escape the everyday on a rainy day and immerse yourself in British culture at the Yale Center for British Art, the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. Artistic works from the Elizabethan Age through today, many from the Paul Mellon collection, are on display. Stand in front of the great oil paintings by Turner, Constable, Whistler, Stubbs and Reynolds. Admire a Hepworth sculpture. Let your imagination soar examining a watercolor map of the Francis Drake expedition in 1577 or the amazing animals on the pages of the Helmingham Herbal and Bestiary, circa 1500. The museum, itself a work of art by renowned architect Louis I. Kahn, includes 2,000 paintings, 250 sculptures and 35,000 rare books and manuscripts.