Breaking Ground and Gender Norms
Jun. 12, 2024
By Qi Liu
Penn senior Qi Liu examines the shift in the field of archaeology from a male-dominated discipline to one where women are in the majority.
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May. 28, 2024
By Jasmine Wang, Mac McKillip, Sarah Hinkel
Fengshui for the Afterlife
Penn student curators learn about the making of a museum exhibition by exploring the contents of a 12th-century Chinese tomb in context with fengshui and cosmology.
May. 14, 2024
By Expedition Magazine Digital Extra
From Egypt, With Love
David O’Connor’s arrival to the Penn Museum in 1964 ushered in a new era of Egyptology in Philadelphia and beyond. But the famed archaeologist was also a dad—connecting with his young daughter across continents with these whimsical doodles.
Apr. 30, 2024
By Sarah Lavin
Preserving Buddhist Murals
It’s been nearly a decade since visitors could see the Penn Museum’s Buddhist Murals. Conservators are working to bring them back into view.
Mar. 20, 2023
By Sean Billups
Ancient Glow-in-the-Dark Artifacts
“Technical analysis” is a term frequently used in the conservation field to describe the use of specialized techniques to examine objects. Those techniques can include using scientific instruments, special cameras, and lots of other equipment. Maybe that term sounds boring, but in addition to telling you a lot about an object, you can also sometimes find fun surprises.
Jan. 08, 2023
By Chris LaMack
Archaeology Behind the Scenes
This past summer, our team from the Paleoecology Lab and the South Asia Center at Penn spent three weeks conducting preliminary work on our new South Asian Landscape Trajectories (SILT) project – and none of it involved excavation. A lot of it however, involved tea.
Dec. 12, 2022
By Cameron Findlay
The Process of Processing
Step 1: Acquiring the Objects Step 2: Bagging, Tagging, Measuring Step 3: Hand-Numbering Step 4: Creating Digital Records Step 5: Photography Written by Cameron Findlay, Penn Museum Intern (Summer 2022) Cameron Findlay is a senior at Smith College majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Art History, with a concentration in Museum Studies. She was one […]