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How the Peabody Family Built a Museum Empire Without a Curator
This episode explores how the Peabody family, a 19th-century philanthropic dynasty, created one of the world's most influential museum networks—not by collecting art, but by funding science and education. We focus on George Peabody, a London-based American banker who donated $2 million in 1862 to found the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, and his nephew Othniel Charles Marsh, a paleontologist whose fossil feuds with Edward Drinker Cope shaped modern natural history museums. We also discuss how the Peabody family's approach to 'education over entertainment' still influences…
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