Events

Second Sunday Culture Films: Wall Stories & The Calligrapher of Old Delhi

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The 2022-2023 culture film series Folklife, a joyful celebration of local folkways: writing, storytelling, visual arts, handcrafts, cuisine, and other forms of expression which make places and people distinctive and create bridges to connect them with other cultures around the world. Wall Stories dir Shashwati Talukdar (2014) A shrine to a saint in India is […]

Up Late With The Sphinx

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Calling all kids and families! Have you ever wanted to explore the museum galleries after dark? Join us during Up Late with the Sphinx for an evening filled with games […]

Great Lectures: Teotihuacan: Rome of the Ancient Americas

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Around 100 CE, a huge metropolis began to emerge in the Basin of Mexico, one the Aztecs would later call Teotihuacan, or “Birthplace of the Gods.” It quickly came to dominate the region, and, with its completely new urban grid-plan, contained as many as 150,000 people. Its two gigantic buildings, the Pyramids of the Sun […]

Culture Fest! Celebrate Woman Artists and Creatives

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

This full-day festival celebrates women and femme artists from around the world, featuring art and performances from some of the region’s best female artists and creatives. Honor the power and […]

Second Sunday Culture Films: Fugetsu-Do & Morkovcha

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The 2022-2023 culture film series Folklife, a joyful celebration of local folkways: writing, storytelling, visual arts, handcrafts, cuisine, and other forms of expression which make places and people distinctive and […]

Up Late with the Sphinx

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Calling all kids and families! Have you ever wanted to explore the museum galleries after dark? Join us during Up Late with the Sphinx for an evening filled with games […]

Great Lecture: North American Mounds as World Heritage

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

A millennium ago, Native people constructed over 120 earthen mounds at the site of Cahokia, a World Heritage site in Illinois. Built entirely by hand, the largest of these constructions […]

Great Lecture: Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

The earliest cities in the world arose in a dynamic wetland environment at the intersection of the Tigris-Euphrates delta and the shore of the Persian Gulf during the 4th- and 3rd-millennia BCE. Recent work at the site of Lagash, led by the Penn Museum, in collaboration with the University of Pisa and Cambridge University, focuses […]

Great Lecture: Saving the Archaeology and Monuments of Lower Nubia

Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Beginning in 1902, the archaeological sites and monuments of Lower Nubia were increasingly threatened by the construction of the series of dams on the Nile River at Aswan. By the […]