Egypt
Penn Museum
- Exchange Of Prisoners With Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Penn Museum (Pam Kosty) When Penn Museum agreed to lend objects from its Egyptian collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their new exhibition, The Dawn of Egyptian Art (April 10 through August 5, 2012), Penn Museum’s Egyptian section curator...
- Penn Museum Launches Online Collections Database
Penn Museum (Gabrielle Niu) Just this week, the Penn Museum launched its Online Collections Database. This brand new resource currently encompasses over 314,000 object records and is illustrated with 46,000 images, stats that are expected to increase...
- Penn Museum To Share Cultural Treasures Via Internet
Reuters Thanks to Rick Menges for kindly sendly me a link to his album of photographs from the Penn Museum collection at webshots.com. It's worth visiting! The University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, a national and...
- Richard Hodges Named Director Of University Of Pennsylvania Museum Of Archaeology And Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania Richard Hodges has been named the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Hodges will join Penn Oct. 1 from his position as director of the Institute of World Archaeology at...
- The Penn's Baby Boy Mummy
The fine people "In the Artifact Lab" at the Penn Museum have presented here a beautiful mummy of a boy and the studies which have taken place by them and earlier researchers. The unwrapped mummy was probably less than 2 years old when he died and likely...
Egypt
Penn Museum collections now online
Penn Museum
The diverse, internationally acclaimed Collection hails from six continents and spans the millennia, shedding light on the vast scope of human activity and achievement. The permanent building to house the field notes and artifacts came more than a decade later, with the first section of the Museum, at what is now 3260 South Street, opening in 1899.
Now, the Penn Museum begins its 125th anniversary year by placing its Collection front and center, launching the Penn Museum online Collections Database from the Museum’s homepage: www.penn.museum. It’s a place where scholars can go to get preliminary information on a particular artifact or set of artifacts, teachers and school children can explore a region’s cultural materials, and anybody with access to a computer can “curate” their own set of favorite “finds” and share them with friends.
The new public database allows users to search in multiple ways, including by keyword, curatorial section, type of material, and display status. Highlights from the Collection are featured, as are several cross-cultural thematic collections, including Egyptian Afterlife, Hair & Makeup, Feathers, and Animals.
- Exchange Of Prisoners With Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Penn Museum (Pam Kosty) When Penn Museum agreed to lend objects from its Egyptian collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their new exhibition, The Dawn of Egyptian Art (April 10 through August 5, 2012), Penn Museum’s Egyptian section curator...
- Penn Museum Launches Online Collections Database
Penn Museum (Gabrielle Niu) Just this week, the Penn Museum launched its Online Collections Database. This brand new resource currently encompasses over 314,000 object records and is illustrated with 46,000 images, stats that are expected to increase...
- Penn Museum To Share Cultural Treasures Via Internet
Reuters Thanks to Rick Menges for kindly sendly me a link to his album of photographs from the Penn Museum collection at webshots.com. It's worth visiting! The University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, a national and...
- Richard Hodges Named Director Of University Of Pennsylvania Museum Of Archaeology And Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania Richard Hodges has been named the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Hodges will join Penn Oct. 1 from his position as director of the Institute of World Archaeology at...
- The Penn's Baby Boy Mummy
The fine people "In the Artifact Lab" at the Penn Museum have presented here a beautiful mummy of a boy and the studies which have taken place by them and earlier researchers. The unwrapped mummy was probably less than 2 years old when he died and likely...