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For Shark Week 2012 Why Not Enjoy a Shark Salad?
Image courtesy of MacJams.com It’s Shark Week and how better to celebrate than with a shark inspired creation! Enjoy our shark salad! For this summer’s best dish please read directions and reference...
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The Story Behind the Painted Buffalo Robes
One hundred years ago this year (when the Penn Museum was just celebrating the 25th anniversary of its founding) a letter arrived on the desk of then Director, George Byron Gordon. The post was from...
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Maya Fun Fact: Human Sacrifice
The Maya are well known for their achievements in counting and documenting time, but do they deserve a reputation for human sacrifice? For ancient Americans this was a ritualized practice that was...
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Maya Fun Fact: The Importance of Corn
Corn is an important part of Maya culture. In the Popol Vuh, Maya cosmology holds that the Gods created the first humans from an ear of corn. Another sign of the importance of corn is the multiple...
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How Beer Saved the World
Was beer critical in the development of civilization, agriculture, mathematics, bookkeeping, writing and language? Did beer help build the pyramids? Was beer used to treat certain afflictions and was...
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National Poetry Month, Week 1
The month of April is a month full of dedications – everything from Fools (April 1) to Administrative Professionals (April 24) and even the whole Earth itself (April 22) receive a special day. My...
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National Poetry Month, Week 2
This week, Abington School District guest interpreters Jacob and Kaileb give us two new ways to look at Penn Museum’s iconic Lyre with Bearded Bull’s Head and Inlaid Panel. Bull’s Head Lyre Fragmentc....
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National Poetry Month, Week 3
This week highlights two iconic objects from the Iraq’s Ancient Past exhibition: Ram in the Thicket and Puabi’s Diadem and Headdress. Here is what the guest interpreters had to say: “Ram in the...
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National Poetry Month, Week 4
This week, Thomas and Max give us new ways to look at Harpoon-shaped Head: Spearhead B17528A Pointy Sharp, Shiny Stabbing, Throwing, Battling What is it made of? Wood by Thomas Sharp Brown, Amazed...
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How Many Toilet Paper Tubes Will It Take to Operate Penn Museum Summer Camp...
I’m not into social media that much (for starters, I don’t do Facebook–gasp!), but if my fellow colleagues at the Penn Museum would happen to pick an avatar, a visual representation for myself, it...
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Archives Photo of the Week: Baseball
Baseball team from an Indemnity School in ChinaPenn Museum Image #216128 With baseball’s World Series starting this week, it’s fitting to pay tribute to the Fall Classic with the Photo of the Week....
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Archives Photo of the Week: Halloween
Scarecrow with cow’s skullPenn Museum Image #83373 Halloween was yesterday and the Penn Museum Archives wanted to leave you with one last treat for the holiday. One of the spookiest images in our...
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“When the Sap Starts Running in the Spring, the Blood Starts Running in Our Men”
Probably one of the fastest growing games in the world, it seems that everyone wants to play lacrosse. The Iroquois Confederacy or Haudenosaunee will field a team at the World Outdoor Championship...
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The Cosmos in Storage
I know I’m not alone when I say that I get excited on Sunday nights to sit down and watch Cosmos. The re-envisioned Carl Sagan classic airs on Fox on Sunday nights with Neil deGrasse Tyson as host....
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Are We Hard Wired To Collect?
Deer, Parrot, Chief, and Owl katsinam in the Wolf collection. When talking to school kids visiting the Museum, I love to ask them if they collect anything? Their hands fly up in the air and they...
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Archives Photo of the Week: Mustache.
Portrait of George Byron Gordon, Museum’s first full-time director from 1910-27.Penn Image #162272 The Penn Museum Archives is home to the archival collections of the directors of the museum. As you...
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Looking for a good book this summer?
“There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.” -Eyes and Ears, 1862...
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Hot pepper and ice – and the earliest photograph of soccer north of the...
The 2014 FIFA World Cup has begun in Brazil this afternoon. Since it is being played in a tropical country this year, the Penn Museum Archives thought it fitting to show what is most likely the...
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The Emergence of Ringo and Sobek
The work in the Penn Museum Archives never ends. The backlog resists attempts at taming it. The archives is happy to have a number of interns and volunteers who are willing to help organize, catalog,...
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Day of Archaeology 2014
#DayofArch This Friday, July 11 the Penn Museum is participating in a Day of Archaeology 2014, which is a communal project that invites people from all over the world who work, study, or volunteer in...
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