Video Playlists
Select playlists to focus on specific topics and formats, like lectures, archival films, and sign language gallery tours.
![Entrance to a monument in Lower Nubia, with massive statues of seated pharaohs.](/img/calendar/lectures/gls-jun23.jpg)
World Heritage
Sites designated by UNESCO highlight masterpieces of human creative genius, such as great archaeolog. ...
![A portion of the Catalan Atlas depicting a king on a throne.](/img/calendar/lectures/revolutionaries-nov.jpg)
Great Revolutionaries
Throughout history, there have been outstanding leaders and change-makers that have guided societies. ...
![A monument of soldiers.](/img/calendar/digital/gls-monument-june.jpg)
Great Monuments
Monuments have been constructed throughout history—but why, how, and to what end? Join acclaimed P. ...
![A volcano erupting.](/img/collections/playlists/great-catastrophes.jpg)
Great Catastrophes
Throughout time, catastrophes have shaped the world we live in. In the 2019-20 Great Lecture Series,. ...
![Tamurlane's Samarkand.](/img/collections/playlists/silk-road.jpg)
Great Adventures Along the Silk Road
From mummies to Marco Polo to military warfare to the Black Death. Explore the many adventures the S. ...
![Close up of foot of foo lion.](/img/collections/playlists/great-stuff.jpg)
Great Stuff Lecture Series
Stuff. It fills our homes, offices, minds, and bodies. It can be defined as a collection of belongin. ...
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Rise of the City Lecture Series
What is a city? How do religion, politics, and environments effect the growth and development of cit. ...
![Depiction of anzu the lion headed eagle.](/img/collections/playlists/great-beasts.jpg)
Great Beasts of Legend Lecture Series
Throughout history, great beasts and monsters fabled or not have terrorized, enchanted, and eluded h. ...
![Christ Stilleth the Tempest by John Martin.](/img/collections/playlists/great-voyages.jpg)
Great Voyages Lecture Series
Take an armchair journey across exotic lands and seas with 'Great Voyages: Travels, Triumphs, and Tr. ...
![View of santorini from above.](/img/collections/playlists/great-riddles.jpg)
Great Riddles in Archaeology Lecture Series
From the knights of King Arthur's roundtable to the deepest depths of Atlantis, some of the world's . ...
![Illustration from the Arabian Nights of men about to kill a giant hatching chick.](/img/collections/playlists/great-myths.jpg)
Great Myths and Legends Lecture Series
Amazonian warrior women, Genghis Khan, even King Midas and his golden touch — all have their momen. ...
![Great Wall of China.](/img/collections/playlists/great-wonders.jpg)
Great Wonders Lecture Series
Learn about the seven wonders of the world and other great monuments of archaeological interest. Lec. ...
![Painting of Battle of Gettysburg.](/img/collections/playlists/great-battles.jpg)
Great Battles Lecture Series
Experience the moments in time that changed history with the Penn Museum's Great Battles lecture ser. ...
![Remains of ancient tools.](/img/collections/playlists/meg.jpg)
The Middle East Galleries
The 4,500-year-old crowning jewelry of a Mesopotamian queen. One of the world’s oldest wine vessel. ...
![Man giving presentation.](/img/collections/playlists/phrygian-gordion.jpg)
The World of Phrygian Gordion, Royal City of Midas
Gordion is one of the most important archaeological sites in the Near East, and since 1950, it has b. ...
![Dr. Froelich Rainey.](/img/collections/playlists/what-in-the-world.jpg)
What in the World?
What in the World?® was the Penn Museum's Peabody Award-winning popular weekly half-hour television. ...
![Baby monkeys.](/img/collections/playlists/tikal-project.jpg)
Tikal Expedition Collection (Archival Footage)
Due to its inaccessible location in the jungles of the Petén, Guatemala, the great Maya city of Tik. ...
![Someone chiseling a silver cast.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-ethiopia.jpg)
Ethiopia from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Woman spinning wool.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-ecuador.jpg)
Ecuador from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Man sculpting clay figure.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-japan.jpg)
Japan from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Sidewalls of Corinthian tomb.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-jordan.jpg)
Jordan from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Someone hand-weaving on a loom.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-cyprus.jpg)
Cyprus from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Man signing in ASL next to a display of jars.](/img/collections/playlists/asl-highlights.jpg)
Highlights of the Galleries Tour in Sign Language (2005)
Watch actor and comedian, CJ Jones, as he takes you on a tour of Penn Museum's Galleries. Please not. ...
![Pottery for sale outside a stone building.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-tunisia.jpg)
Tunisia from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Mosque dome.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-afghanistan.jpg)
Afghanistan from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Children standing next to a fishing boat.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-iran.jpg)
Iran from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Food for sale in large metal bowls.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-pakistan.jpg)
Pakistan from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Pink skirt with embroidery work on the edge.](/img/collections/playlists/peru.jpg)
Machu Picchu and Peru
Films from various places in Peru including Machu Pichu, Cuzco Sacsayhuaman Market and Lima among ot. ...
![People riding elephants.](/img/collections/playlists/watson-kintner-ceylon.jpg)
Ceylon from the Watson Kintner Collection
Watson Kintner (1890-1979) was a Chemical Engineer with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), wher. ...
![Someone painting a landscape.](/img/collections/playlists/turkey.jpg)
Turkey
Footage from various times and trips to Turkey.. ...
![Bottle of vodka in the foreground, a hut in the background.](/img/collections/playlists/mongolia.jpg)
Mongolia
Footage and interviews from Mongolia, taking place in the year 2000. ...
![Cover slide from a class powerpoint about biomedicine and race.](/img/collections/playlists/science-race.jpg)
Science and Race: History, Use, and Abuse
Each Science and Race class features a panel of four to six experts, with questions led by moderator. ...
![Woman operating machinery in a lab.](/img/collections/playlists/engaging-conservation.jpg)
Engaging Conservation: Collaboration Across Disciplines
The Conservation Department of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ...
![Camel figurines.](/img/collections/playlists/silk-road-symposium.jpg)
The Silk Road Symposium
The Penn Museum held a public symposium, the first major event in over fifteen years to focus on the. ...