Boy Scouts at the Penn Museum
By: Bea Jarocha-Ernst
Every day that something cool comes out of our archives image database is a good day. There are just so many amazing photos from years gone by relating to all sorts of stuff! Most recently we came across this gem. The Development Office’s awesome intern, Jessica, has been putting together some marketing and outreach letter […]
Electronics Recycling
By: Michael Condiff
A lot of the materials in computers and monitors are very harmful to the environment if not disposed of properly. Over time computer equipment becomes antiquated and or broken and it is the job of the I.T. department to follow Penn policy and recycle this e-waste. As Penn Museum has transitioned from the large CRT […]
Sign Language iPod Tours
By: Amy Ellsworth
We just finished taping the American Sign Language (ASL) Tours for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired with SignWorld TV. The video tour features actor and comedian CJ Jones signing in the galleries. The Highlights of the Galleries in ASL tour will be available on iPods as well as a video download on the website in […]
Crating and Packing
By: Stephen Lang
After spending some time in Osaka seeing the sites, ( bunraku, fugu, kobe beef, Ceramics Museum, shopping) I headed to the city of Nara ready to get down to work. I arrived at the museum with the intention of condition reporting our statue and its base and then overseeing the crating of each. If time […]
Minpaku!
By: Stephen Lang
I visited the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka (MINPAKU). It was incredible. see: http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/museum/exhibition/ They had a design award in their lobby prominently displayed and I found out why. The museum galleries are just packed with objects of every kind and sort. The majority of the material seemed to be from the 18th century […]
Power Down Garden Party
By: Bea Jarocha-Ernst
The Museum’s Development Office is happy to have a Penn student, Jessica Bell, as our intern this summer. We hope to show her the full gamut of what development does and one of those things is special events. Her first project on her first day was to label and help stuff all of those buckets […]
Planes, trains, and buses.
By: Stephen Lang
Well I made it to Japan in one piece. The journey was not very pleasant, even though I did get to fly business class. This sometimes happens when the borrowing institution wants you to be able to get some sleep on the plane, particularly when there isn’t much time to get over jet lag. I […]
Courier Trips
By: Stephen Lang
Courier Trips. If you peruse the admin meeting minutes you may notice that every so often a registrar or keeper is away on a courier trip. What are these trips and what do they entail? The answer varies widely depending on the section and the final destination. Courier trips occur when we loan an institution […]
Networking
By: Lynn Grant
In the final week our Chinese colleagues were with us, we did give them a chance to do something other than work on the Horses. Our colleagues at Historic Preservation on Penn’s campus gave them a tour of their architectural conservation labs and digital resources and very kindly arranged for them to have a special […]
The 3D craze
By: Lynn Grant
In the old days (which are still around sometimes), if you wanted to make a copy of something like the Tang Horses, you’d take an impression using silicone rubber or rubber latex or something like that. It was/is a messy business that required a lot of preparation and even then sometimes damaged the artwork it […]