Penn Museum offers a wide variety of events including concerts, dance performances, films, "World Culture" family days celebrating diverse cultures, lectures, and special symposia. Guided gallery tours begin at the Main Entrance most Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30 p.m. from mid-September through mid-May.
As we approach the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, the originator of the modern theory of evolution, it is a rich time to take stock of how much we've learned since On the Origin of Species was published in 1859.
The University of Pennsylvania and Penn Museum, joined by major Philadelphia cultural organizations, come together to offer the public a year of special programs dedicated to the ever-evolving process of evolution.
In 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson added a crucial link to the evolutionary chain with his discovery of a 3.2-million-year-old hominid fossil in Ethiopia. “Lucy,” as the skeleton was called, represented a previously unknown human ancestorthe species Australopithecus afarensis, now considered a key turning point in the descent of humankind...
