Yale Museums, free (an Ivy League education will cost you $43,700 a year.)
So, you didn’t get into Yale? Consider that $174,800 saved, because Yale’s excellent museums are free — even for high-school dropouts. The Yale University Art Gallery houses ancient-through-modern art, and docent-led tours are free on weekends. In late August, the gallery hosts a special exhibit To Know the Dark: American Artists’ Visions of the Night, described as nighttime “intimations of suspense, mystery, romance, fantasy, fear, despair, and hope.” The Yale Center for British Art is the country’s greatest collection of, well, British Art. Among the collected works, you’ll find drawings, watercolors, tempura paintings, and prints from William Blake’s early illuminated books, plus J.M.W. Turner’s delicate Steamboat in a Storm, which rivals the MFA’s The Slave Ship. Finally, Orpheus charms wild beasts on an ornate 18th-century guitar at the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments. Whoever said education wasn’t free?
Yale University Art Gallery | Chapel at High Street, New Haven, CT | 203.432.0600 | Yale Center for British Art | 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT | 203.432.2800 | Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments | 15 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT | 203.432.0822
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