Vol. 20 / No. 1
By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Fall 1977: The Director Writes
At the conclusion of the distinguished directorship of Froelich Rainey, reaching back over some of the most formative years of […]
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Vol. 20 / No. 2
By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Winter 1978: The Director Writes
In the last issue I asked some questions about what sort of institution the University Museum ought to be. In […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Spring 1978: The Director Writes
In the last issue of Expedition I wrote about the University Museum’s existing archives and their care. This time I […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Summer 1978: The Director Writes
The Museum holds some of man’s great works of art—from the world of the Maya, from Burner, from China—but it […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Fall 1978: The Director Writes
In the Summer issue of Expedition, in writing about the University Museum’s collections, I touched on the question of acquisitions […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Winter 1979: The Director Writes
In the last issue I wrote about the great size of our collections, the invisible nine-tenths—if not ninety-nine hundredths—of the […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Spring 1979: The Director Writes
It’s all very well to write somewhat owlishly about ‘reserve collections’ and the horizontal’ versus ‘the vertical’ approach to museum […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Summer 1979: The Director Writes
An important—perhaps too important—way of judging a museum’s success or failure is to look at the number of its visitors. […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Fall 1979: The Director Writes
The students who come to the Museum as the most distinguished cultural resource on Campus are welcome and fortunate, as […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Winter 1980: The Director Writes
Over the past two and a half years, I have tried on this page to give a director’s-eye view of […]
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By: Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle
England’s Premier Abbey: The Medieval Chapter House of St. Albans Abbey, and its Excavation in 1978
Twenty miles northwest of London, the great highway of Watling Street passes through the Roman city of Verulamium, the second […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Spring 1980: The Director Writes
In the next few numbers of Expedition I shall take a look at the Museum’s research in the field now and in […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Summer 1980: The Director Writes
`… nor will they knowingly support this illegal trade by authenticating or expressing opinions concerning such material, and will actively […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Fall 1980: The Director Writes
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania voted on 6 December 1887 to send ‘an exploring expedition to Babylon’—perhaps the […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Winter 1981: The Director Writes
In the last issue I wrote about the University Museum’s exceptional commitment to field research and listed some of the […]
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By: Martin Biddle
New Directions – Spring 1981
For over ninety years The University Museum has been digging ancient sites and studying contemporary traditional communities virtually alI over […]
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