Students
Jun. 12, 2024
By Qi Liu
Breaking Ground and Gender Norms
Penn senior Qi Liu examines the shift in the field of archaeology from a male-dominated discipline to one where women are in the majority.
May. 28, 2024
By Jasmine Wang, Mac McKillip, Sarah Hinkel
Fengshui for the Afterlife
Penn student curators learn about the making of a museum exhibition by exploring the contents of a 12th-century Chinese tomb in context with fengshui and cosmology.
Dec. 12, 2022
By Cameron Findlay
The Process of Processing
Step 1: Acquiring the Objects Step 2: Bagging, Tagging, Measuring Step 3: Hand-Numbering Step 4: Creating Digital Records Step 5: Photography Written by Cameron Findlay, Penn Museum Intern (Summer 2022) Cameron Findlay is a senior at Smith College majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Art History, with a concentration in Museum Studies. She was one […]
May. 15, 2022
By Sarah LaPorte
Cold War Archaeology
A large-scale archival “deep-dive” that considers multiple angles for how the US government, private industries, and academia came together in Froelich Rainey’s long career.