Egypt
- Museums And Academic Values
Inside Higher Ed Arts advocates have been outraged this week by Brandeis University’s plan to sell all of the art in its museum as a way to raise money for the university. It turns out Brandeis isn’t the only university where critics are questioning...
- Financial Crisis Forces Firing Of 18 Penn Museum Researchers
The Daily Pennsylvanian The Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is the latest to be affected by the financial crisis. Museum director Richard Hodges announced in a memo last Friday that the museum would discontinue 18 "research specialist" positions...
- Exhibition: Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place In The Sun
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/exhibits_looking.shtml http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/amarna/about2.shtmlThe University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has announced a new exhibition, running from November 12,...
- Worthwhile Goal For A Dusty Relic
http://tinyurl.com/997jp "University of Pennsylvania Museum director Richard M. Leventhal wants to bring antiquities into the future. Unfortunately, despite his museum's international reputation in anthropology and archaeology, the presentation of...
- Penns Mummies
The University of Pennsylvania has ct scanned some of its museums mummies including one with a mummified puppy at its feet. http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v55/n31/mummies.html...
Egypt
Upenn Williams Director steps down
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v53/n09/rl.html
"Dr. Richard M. Leventhal, the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, has announced his intention to step down from the directorship effective November 1, 2006. Dr. Leventhal will continue as a tenured faculty member in the School of Arts and Sciences, will be a curator in the Museum, and will launch a new initiative within the Museum focusing on national and international issues of cultural heritage and cultural property preservation. . . . Dr. Jeremy A. Sabloff, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and curator of the American section of Penn Museum, will serve as Interim Director."
See the above press release for the full story.
- Museums And Academic Values
Inside Higher Ed Arts advocates have been outraged this week by Brandeis University’s plan to sell all of the art in its museum as a way to raise money for the university. It turns out Brandeis isn’t the only university where critics are questioning...
- Financial Crisis Forces Firing Of 18 Penn Museum Researchers
The Daily Pennsylvanian The Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is the latest to be affected by the financial crisis. Museum director Richard Hodges announced in a memo last Friday that the museum would discontinue 18 "research specialist" positions...
- Exhibition: Amarna, Ancient Egypt's Place In The Sun
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/exhibits_looking.shtml http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/amarna/about2.shtmlThe University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has announced a new exhibition, running from November 12,...
- Worthwhile Goal For A Dusty Relic
http://tinyurl.com/997jp "University of Pennsylvania Museum director Richard M. Leventhal wants to bring antiquities into the future. Unfortunately, despite his museum's international reputation in anthropology and archaeology, the presentation of...
- Penns Mummies
The University of Pennsylvania has ct scanned some of its museums mummies including one with a mummified puppy at its feet. http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v55/n31/mummies.html...