The mastodon has always been part of The Peale’s story — from Charles Willson Peale’s 1801 excavation to Rembrandt Peale’s Baltimore Museum in 1814, where gaslight and fossils inspired generations of explorers.

Today, that lineage continues. 

The newly installed Sassy Toes chandelier glows above The Peale’s grand staircase, while Founding Fossils invites visitors to handle 3-D printed relics of that very same Ice Age creature. 

Together, they symbolize The Peale’s rebirth as a living laboratory for Baltimore’s artists, apprentices, and technologists.