Imagine Africa with the Penn Museum

How do you imagine Africa? Do you see it as the home of powerful nations? Do you think of intricately carved masks or fine art? Maybe you’re interested in the peoples living in Africa today.

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In the Artifact Lab: Conserving Egyptian Mummies

Upper Baugh Pavillion, 3rd Floor

Live Mummy Conservation!

Part exhibition, and part working laboratory, a glass-enclosed conservation lab brings you right into a museum conservator’s world. See the tools of the trade and watch as conservators work on a wide array of Egyptian objects including rare paintings, ancient funerary objects, and, of course, mummies! Enjoy this unique opportunity to follow conservators as they protect, restore, and preserve pieces of ancient Egyptian history in this 2,000 square foot exhibition.

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Visitors can look in to see a range of artifacts in various stages of conservation, watching as members of the Penn Museum Conservation Department move from studying, preparing, cleaning, mending, or conserving an elegant ancient coffin lid, to working on elaborately wrapped animal mummies and human mummy heads.

Ask questions weekdays, 11:15 am and 2:00 pm, and weekends, 12:30 - 1:00 pm and 3:30pm - 4pm.

In the Artifact Lab is made possible through the generosity of Frances Rockwell and John R. Rockwell, W64, WG66.

For updates on the objects being conserved and the projects happening in the lab, visit the In The Artifact Lab Blog

 

Year of Proof: Making and Unmaking Race

Trescher Entrance Lobby, 1st Floor

Is there such a thing in humans called race?

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Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium

(Closing Date Extended)
Exhibition of Large-scale Photographs by Turkish Photographer Ahmet Ertug 

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What in the World

Third Floor Video Theatre
What in the World is an interactive installation created by multi-disciplinary artist Pablo Helguera as part of the Philagrafika contemporary art festival.

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