Great Stuff Lecture Series
Stuff. It fills our homes, offices, minds, and bodies. It can be defined as a collection of belongings, ideas, expertise, and much, much more. With roughly one million objects in our care, the Penn Museum is filled with great stuff. The 2018–2019 Great Lecture Series explores select objects and ideas housed within our Museum.
Length: 47:23
Director’s Highlights of the Penn Museum Collection
Julian Siggers, Williams Director Penn Museum The Penn Museum stewards nearly one million artifacts from around the world—in other words, the Museum has great stuff, and a lot of it. Williams Director Julian Siggers will explore some of his favo...
Length: 1:00:28
Protecting Stuff Today: Cultural Heritage Sites and the Penn Museum
Brian I. Daniels, Director of Research and Programs, Penn Cultural Heritage Center All around the world, cultural heritage sites seem to be at great risk from conflict or other disasters. Due to recent cultural destruction in the Middle East and N...
Length: 1:01:45
The Stuff You Do Not See: Conservation for a Renovated Museum
Lynn Grant, Head Conservator In the Summer of 2018, the Lower Egyptian (Sphinx) Gallery was closed to the public. Why? What’s been happening with all the stuff in there since then? Head Conservator Lynn Grant will talk about the monumental – in ...
Length: 1:07:40
A Home for our Stuff: Building the Penn Museum
Ann Brownlee, Associate Curator, Mediterranean Section The Penn Museum has been collecting "Great Stuff" for 130 years, and, from the start it has created Great Architecture to showcase its rich collections and to reflect rapidly changing thin...
Length: 1:01:00
The Stuff of Life: Animal Remains
Katherine Moore, Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, Zooarchaeology Animal “stuff” in the Museum includes bones of animals dedicated as offerings, animal parts discarded as food, and animal parts made into ornaments and game pieces. Some of the ol...
Length: 55:54
The Stuff of Archaeology: An Introduction
Lauren Ristvet, Dyson Associate Curator, Near East Section Cities. Buildings. Graves. Pottery. Animal Bones. Pollen. DNA. Oxygen molecules. The stuff of archaeology is changing rapidly, as are the questions we can ask and answer. How do archaeolog...