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Like Father, Like Daughter: One Family’s Unique Bond with the Penn Museum
Molly Gleeson, Rockwell Project Conservator of In the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies, recently welcomed a special, and especially determined, young guest. One week every summer for the past...
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Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania Gathers Local Friends, Neighbors at the Penn...
Members and friends of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania recently came ashore to the Penn Museum 13 days into their 17-day "Rising Nation" Delaware River canoe journey, inviting area neighbors,...
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New Jersey Lenape Youth Explore Objects from Their Tribal Nation in the Penn...
Children from the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation of Bridgeton, New Jersey, recently visited the Penn Museum's Native American Voices exhibition to see their tribe represented in a major exhibition.
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Setting the Stage for Footprints of Peace
Penn Museum's Footprints of Peace program is scheduled for International Peace Day Sunday, September 21. For one group of West Philadelphia summer campers with the Artistic and Cultural Enrichment...
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Chinese Artists Visit Museum
The Penn Museum recently welcomed eight renowned painters from China, visiting the galleries as part of a three-day Philadelphia stop on a U.S. tour. Artists Yun Sheng Nan, Bo Qiang, An Wei, Xiaoyong...
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Suzan Harjo to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
The Penn Museum congratulates Suzan Shown Harjo! Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee poet, writer, lecturer, curator, policy advocate, and an advisor to the Penn Museum's Native American Voices: The...
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History of the World in 1,000 Objects?
History of the World in 1,000 Objects?The Penn Museum's International Collections Help Tell the Story of Humankind PHILADELPHIA, PA November 2014—When Publisher DK, in collaboration with the...
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Dr. C. Brian Rose, Penn Museum’s Mediterranean Section Curator-in-Charge, To...
DECEMBER 2014—Dr. C. Brian Rose, Peter C. Ferry Curator-in-Charge of the Mediterranean Section at the Penn Museum (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) and the James B....
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Panamanian Exchange Students Treated to Sneak Preview of Beneath the Surface:...
Six Panamanian high school exchange students from Colegio San Agustín, Panama City, paired with local students from Villa Maria Academy and Malvern Preparatory School in Malvern, PA, returned to Panama...
View ArticleThe Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq and Syria
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology deplores the devastating, ongoing destruction of cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria. The continued pillaging of archaeological...
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At the Edge of the Persian Empire
Archaeologist Lauren Risvet, the Robert H. Dyson Assistant Curator, Near East Section of the Penn Museum, has been working in Azerbaijan, one of the first Westerners to excavate there. Her goal: to...
View ArticleIt’s time for the Philadelphia Science Festival!
A nine-day, community-wide celebration of science, this year's Philadelphia Science Festival takes place April 24 through May 2, featuring lectures, debates, hands-on activities, special exhibitions...
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PennCHC Consulting Scholar Testifies Before Congressional Hearing
On Wednesday, May 13, 2015, Dr. Katharyn Hanson, a Consulting Scholar with the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the Penn Museum, testifed before the Congressional Hearing of the Foreign Affairs...
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Yoga Rx with John Wylie at the Penn Museum
When Lieutenant John Wylie, a 25+ year member of the University of Pennsylvania Police Department, wanted to create his new instructional Chair Yoga video, he looked to the Penn Museum's monumental...
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Ancient Mesopotamia Goes Digital
From his office in the Babylonian Section of the Penn Museum, Grant Frame directs a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded project that is increasing the understanding of Assyrian and Babylonian...
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A Season of Research and Discovery
The summer season is upon us, and Penn students are taking off—for some serious exploration.
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Louis H. Farrell School 7th Graders "Unpack" the Past
Seventh grade students from the Louis H. Farrell School in northeast Philadelphia, fresh from a June visit to the Penn Museum for an Unpacking the Past exploration into ancient Egyptian science,...
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Bony Questions About Origins of Flight
Bony Questions: Considering the Origins and Evolution of Flight Tiny skeletons of about 100 birds and 100 bats, all painstakingly packaged, have been arriving at the Penn Museum, on loan from the...
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Special Admission Price—plus Cool Offerings—at the Penn Museum July and...
This July and August, the general admission price at the Penn Museum is just $10! Adults, seniors, and children get in for one cool price (1/3 off regular adult admission): $10. (As always, Penn...
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Inquiry and the Ancients: Teachers Explore the Value of the Question at...
Five teachers around the table listened intently as a sixth, Brett Lear, shared information about the "personal artifact" he had brought in: a standard-sized playbill from last Sunday's "final"...
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