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No Armchair Archaeologists Allowed:  Travails of Travel on Early Penn Museum Expeditions

Through photographs and anecdotes, Penn Museum archivist Alessandro Pezzati invites guests to experience the delights and difficulties of travel--by mule or ocean liner, through jungle or across glacier--on Penn Museum field expeditions. The goal was discovery... but first the expedition team had to get there! Highlights include Mesopotamia in the 1890s, the Amazon in the 1910s, air travel in Iran and the Yucatan in the 1930s, and even underwater exploration in the 1960s.
Lecture admission: Pay-What-You-Want. A reception follows for members of the 1887 Society (10 years or more of consecutive giving) and Sarah Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle.