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Welcome to the Penn Museum blog. First launched in January 2009, the Museum blog now has over 800 posts covering a range of topics in the categories of Museum, Collection, Exhibitions, Research, and By Location. Here you’ll hear directly from our staff and Penn students about their work, research, experiences, and discoveries. To explore the Museum's other digital content, visit The Digital Penn Museum.


Boy Scouts at the Penn Museum

By: Bea Jarocha-Ernst

Every day that something cool comes out of our archives image database is a good day.  There are just so many amazing photos from years gone by relating to all sorts of stuff! Most recently we came across this gem. The Development Office’s awesome intern, Jessica, has been putting together some marketing and outreach letter […]

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Power Down Garden Party

By: Bea Jarocha-Ernst

The Museum’s Development Office is happy to have a Penn student, Jessica Bell, as our intern this summer.  We hope to show her the full gamut of what development does and one of those things is special events.  Her first project on her first day was to label and help stuff all of those buckets […]

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