Welcome to the Penn Museum.
It is my great pleasure—as the Penn Museum’s 12th director—to welcome you to enjoy our Museum’s collections and stories during a safe and awe-inspiring visit.
I invite you to experience three levels of galleries, including an entirely reimagined Main Level, with the new Sphinx Gallery just inside the Main Entrance, leading to powerful galleries of Africa and of Mexico and Central America. When you visit, you will also enjoy a range of new amenities that make the Penn Museum fully accessible to all visitors for the first time.
Our safety precautions are at the forefront of visitor experience. These guidelines promote the well-being of our community so we may all continue learning. We are pleased to say that 100% of visitors who responded to post-visit surveys since our initial post-pandemic reopening in July 2020 reported feeling safe throughout their time at the Penn Museum.
While we’d love to see you in person—safely distanced of course—I invite you to continue to experience the Penn Museum At Home and enjoy tours, conversations, films, crafts, and more from wherever you are in the world. You can even shop the Penn Museum through our new online store, which offers a wide range of unique gifts, kids’ activities, jewelry, accessories, books, and more for contactless pickup or delivery to your home.
I hope to see you—in our galleries or online—soon.
All the best,
Christopher Woods
Williams Director
Executive Team
- Christopher Woods, Ph.D., Williams Director
- Jess Bicknell, Director of Exhibitions
- Genny Boccardo-Dubey, Chief Operating Officer
- Jennifer Brehm, Merle-Smith Director of Learning & Community Engagement
- Tia Jackson-Truitt, Ph.D., Chief Diversity Officer
- Amanda Mitchell-Boyask, Executive Director of Advancement
- Stephen J. Tinney, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Chief Curator, Head of Collections and Research
- Jo Tiongson-Perez, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
- Laura Hortz-Stanton, Director of Collections
Board of Advisors
The Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges the leadership and support of the members of its Board of Advisors, as of July 2022:
- Peter G. Gould, Ph.D., LPS10, Chair
- David Brownlee, Ph.D. (ex-officio)
- David T. Clancy, W70
- William L. Conrad, PAR
- Erica Weissman Desai, C96
- Edward Fernberger, Jr., W71
- Peter C. Ferry, C79, PAR
- Steven J. Fluharty, Ph.D., C79, GR81, PAR (ex-officio)
- Irfan M. Furniturewala, WG01, PAR
- George M. Gephart, WG79, PAR
- Ghislain Gouraige, Jr., C80, PAR
- Ingrid A. Graham (emerita)
- Michael J. Kowalski, W74, PAR
- Diane v.S. Levy
- Liz Magill, J.D., (ex-officio)
- Frederick J. Manning, W69, PAR
- Arnab Mishra, W96
- Andrew R. Moelis, C10
- Barbara W. Riley
- Adam Rosen
- Herbert L. Sachs, W69, PAR
- Eric J. Schoenberg, Ph.D., GEN93, WG93, PAR
- Adam D. Sokoloff, W84, PAR
- Matthew J. Storm, C94, WG00
- Gregory Annenberg Weingarten
- Jill Topkis Weiss, C89, WG93, PAR
- Charles K. Williams II, Ph.D., GR78, HON97 (emeritus)
- Beth A. Winkelstein, Ph.D., (ex-officio)
- Christopher Woods, Ph.D., (ex-officio)
Other Volunteer Groups
The Penn Museum gratefully acknowledges the contributions of time, talent, and financial support of the members of the following volunteer groups, as of July 2022:
Director's Council
- Carrie Cox, PAR, Chair
- Arthur J. Burke, Esquire, C89, W89
- Lawrence S. Coben, Ph.D., G03, GR12
- Isabella de la Houssaye
- Douglas T. Dietrich, WG00
- Luis Fernandez-Moreno, WMP89
- Judy Brick Freedman, Ph.D.
- S. Zane Grodman, M.D., C12
- Bryan R. Harris, C83
- John C. Hover II, C65, WG67
- Andrea R. Kramer, Esquire, L76, PAR
- Sharon N. Lorenzo
- Marco L. Lukesch, C01, W01
- Joseph E. Lundy, Esquire, W65
- Bharti Malkani, C91
- Susan T. Marx, CW66
- John J. Medveckis, PAR
- Carlos L. Nottebohm, W64, PAR
- Patrick M. Oates, Ph.D.
- George R. Pitts, Ph.D., GR77
- Judith B. Poss, C87, PAR
- William L. Potter, WG88, PAR
- Gretchen P. Riley, CW70, PAR
- Brian P. Tierney, C79, PAR
- Samuel Phineas Upham, Ph.D., WG05, GRW06
- Nina Robinson Vitow, CW70, WG76
- Natalie B. Wilensky
Campus and Cultural Advisory Council
- David B. Brownlee, Ph.D., Chair Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
- Francesca Ammon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
- William Burke White, Ph.D. Richard Perry Professor and Director, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania
- Scott Cooper, Ph.D. President and CEO, Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University
- Dejay Duckett, Director of Curatorial Services, African American Museum in Philadelphia
- Sara Jane (Sally) Elk, President and CEO, Eastern State Penitentiary
- Oliver St. Clair Franklin O.B.E., Investment analyst (former President of International House)
- Derek Gillman, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Visual Studies, Drexel University
- Susan Glassman, Director, Wagner Free Institute
- Andrea Goulet, Ph.D. Professor of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
- Kelly Lee, Chief Cultural Officer, City of Philadelphia
- John McInerney, Director, Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, University of Pennsylvania
- Kathleen Morrison, Sally and Alvin V. Shoemaker Professor and Chair, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
- Will Noel, John T. Maltsberger III ’55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Karen Redrobe, Ph.D. Jaffe Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
- Ralph M. Rosen, Ph.D. Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of Classical Studies, and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Monique Scott, Ph.D. Director of Museum Studies, Bryn Mawr College
- Jenny Thompson, The Gloria and Jack Drosdick Curator of European Painting and Sculpture and Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art