Multi-disciplinary Artist Pablo Helguera Creates What in the WorldAn "Unauthorized Biography" of the University of Pennsylvania MuseumOn View January 29 through April 11, 2010New Installation is Part of Philagrafika 2010 "Out of Print" Collaboration   In the early 1950s, then-Penn Museum Director Froelich Rainey created a popular television show-What in the World-featuring a rotating panel of Museum scholars and celebrities who examined individual artifacts from the Museum's vast collections, puzzling out where they came from and how they would have been used. The national television show, a pioneer project in the field of museum education at the dawn of the telecommunications age, lasted for several seasons. As one of five "Out of More...

The Goodlands: Young Photographers Inspiring Hope in North PhiladelphiaNeighborhood Photography by Children of Fairhill and West KensingtonOn View at the Penn Museum December 10 through May 2010 DECEMBER 2009—Since 2000, more than 800 children from the Fairhill and West Kensington neighborhoods of North Philadelphia have participated in a unique community-based after school and summer arts program run by Centro Nueva Creacion: The Goodlands®. Beginning December 10, 2009, the Penn Museum presents The Goodlands: Young Photographers Inspiring Hope in North Philadelphia, a selection of more than 40 color photographs of people and places in the community, taken between 2000 and 2009 by neighborhood children aged 5 to 13.  The photography More...

Landscapes of Movement originates from the premise that trails, paths, and roads are the physical manifestation of human movement through the landscape and are central to an understanding of that movement. The study of these features connects with many intellectual domains, engaging history, geography, environmental studies, and, in particular, anthropology and archaeology. These diverse fields together provide not only a better understanding of infrastructure but also of social, political, and economic organization, cultural expressions of patterned movement, and the ways in which trails, paths, and roads reflect a culture's traditional knowledge, worldview, memory, and identity. The contributors to Landscapes of Movement document these routes across different times and cultures, from those made by hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin of North More...