Exhibitions
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.
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.
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?
Vaults of Heaven: Visions of Byzantium
(Closing Date Extended)
Exhibition of Large-scale Photographs by Turkish Photographer Ahmet Ertug
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.
