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Penn Museum, formally known as The University of Pennsylvania（UPenn） Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania. It is located on Penn's campus in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, at the intersection of 33rd and South Streets. [ 1 ]
Gilded funerary mask, Egypt, Ptolemaic or Roman period (post-300 BCE), Penn Museum. The Pennsylvania Declaration was a statement of ethics issued by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology on April 1, 1970. It affirmed that the Penn Museum would no longer acquire objects that lacked provenance or collection histories.
This list of museums in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions, including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses, that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Penn Museum buries the bones of 19 Black Philadelphians, causing a dispute with community members. ... But only one group of people often harmed by archaeology and anthropology, Native Americans ...
Category: Archaeological museums in Pennsylvania. 1 language. ... Penn Museum This page was last edited on 11 October 2023, at 16:44 (UTC). ...
website, operated by the Institute for Biblical and Scientific Studies, replica archaeological artifacts to illuminate the Bible Bicycle Heaven: Pittsburgh: Allegheny: Pittsburgh Metro Area: Transportation: A free museum housing 30,000 vintage and movie bicycles including the one used in Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Big Mac Museum Restaurant: North ...
The remains of the Black Philadelphians were part of the Morton Cranial Collection at the Penn Museum. Beginning in the 1830s, physician and professor Samuel George Morton collected about 900 ...
Patrick McGovern, scientific director of Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the Penn Museum, examines a sample of the "King Midas" beverage residue under a microscope. The sample was recovered from a drinking-vessel found in the Midas Tumulus at the site of Gordion in Turkey, dated c. 740–700 BC. Replicas of two ancient drinking bowls ...