In its 120-year history, Penn Museum has collected nearly one million objects, many obtained directly through its own field excavations or anthropological research. Three gallery floors feature materials from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Bible Lands, Mesoamerica, Asia and the ancient Mediterranean World, as well as artifacts from native peoples of the Americas, Africa and Polynesia. In addition, special exhibitions, both drawn from the Museum's own collections and brought in on loan, enrich the exhibition offerings.
Around 700 C.E. Chamá and the other towns and villages along Guatemala’s Chixoy River were hubs of activity, crossroads of trade and pilgrimage, channeling the movement of people and ideas at the height of Maya civilization... Visit www.paintedmetaphors.org>>
Aerial landscapes of sites in Peru, Mexico, Egypt, Greece, England, and 11 of the fifty United States—all photographed from a single engine Cessna by intrepid co-pilot, explorer and internationally-renowned photographer Marilyn Bridges, are the subject of this exhibition. Read more>>
Once the undisputed lords of southeastern Pennsylvania, the Lenape Indians largely disappeared from the state's history after their forced migration westward in the 1700s...Read more>>
