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Penn Professor Featured on the XPN Morning Show with Michaela Majoun
Penn Museum is hitting the airwaves! Tune in tomorrow (Thursday, October 20th) to the XPN Morning Show with Michaela Majoun on 88.5 FM for a short interview with Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, the…
How does Louis Vuitton Imagine Fashion?
For the Imagine Africa project, the Penn Museum wants to know how you imagine different aspects of African cultures and societies, from religion to art to medicine.
One particularly interesting…
New York Times Spotlights Stewart Culin’s work at the Brooklyn Museum
Philadelphia ethnographer Stewart Culin worked as director of the Penn Museum from 1892 to 1903 and was instrumental in acquiring the Historic Games Collection. After his time here,…
Children in Turkey Playing the Game of Astragalos by Penn Museum on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Children still play “astragals” in West Anatolia Even Herakleitos of Ephesus once played “astragals” with children. Image originally published in Expedition magazine Fall 1974.
Check out the Fall 1974 issue of Expedition magazine at: www.penn.museum/expedition-back-issues/114-volumes-11-20/…
Check out the Year of Games at Penn: secure.www.upenn.edu/themeyear/games/
Conserving ENIAC (aka Project CLEANIAC)
Pre-program interns Vicki Chisholm (left) and Jess Walthew painstakingly cleaning components of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer.
One of the responsibilities of…
The Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai (by pennmuseum)
Maasai Women Singing in Kitengela, Kenya (by pennmuseum)
Women Can Also Play Sports. (Some Sports.)
All nine Bikini Girls from the Villa del Casale of Piazza Armerina.
The Villa del Casale of Piazza Armerina is the 4th-5th century Roman villa that is the subject of an article of…
Alaskan Pipe by Penn Museum on Flickr.
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