Penn In The World: Twelve Decades at the University of Pennsylvania Museum

This exhibition has been organized by nine undergraduate and graduate students from an interdisciplinary Halpern-Rogath Curatorial Seminar in Penn’s department of the history of art. Penn In The World tells the still-evolving story of Penn Museum, its majestic building and the grand, often groundbreaking international work carried out by the archaeologists, anthropologists, other scholars and educators within. Using historic photographs, original documents, architectural drawings, and a selection of about 30 artifacts from more than a dozen of the Museum’s most renowned expeditions—as well as short footage from the 1950s TV program “What in the World,” and an interactive research kiosk—Penn In The World weaves together the diverse narratives of the Museum’s long history. It runs May 8 through September 28, in the Museum’s William B. Dietrich Gallery.