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Penn Museum interns explore jazz through family, protest, and creativity
Father plays keyboard while his daughter smiles. Bookshelves in background.

Music is “a kind of family love language” for Guthrie Ramsey (right) and his daughter Bridget Ramsey (left). “One of my deepest joys is that I’ve been able to pass that along,” he says. 

Penn Museum interns explore jazz through family, protest, and creativity

Penn Museum interns delve into “The Year of Jazz” through a monthly series of events exploring family, protest, and creativity. Music Professor Guthrie Ramsey and his singer/songwriter daughter Bridget Ramsey headline the first event on Feb. 28.

Kristina Linnea García

Penn Museum series highlights ‘Black History Untold: Revolution’
A woman with braids stands in an empty communal office space with books and computers on the desks

Sofiya Ballin is an independent journalist and the creator of the Black History Untold project. 

Penn Museum series highlights ‘Black History Untold: Revolution’

With “Black History Untold: Revolution,” the Penn Museum’s virtual programming offers a different perspective.

Kristina Linnea García

Penn Museum awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant
Main entrance of Penn Museum with brick wall and door open showing arched passageway with Sphinx in the doorway in the very back of the view.

The front entrance to the Penn Museum with a view of the Sphinx that was moved to the main entrance in 2019 as part of the major Building Transformation project. The Museum was just awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to support the transformation’s next phase, renovation of the Egyptian Wing.

Penn Museum awarded National Endowment for the Humanities grant

The Penn Museum has been awarded a $750,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.The grant will help catalyze fundraising for the renovation of the Museum’s Egyptian Wing, part of its major Building Transformation project.
Lynn Meskell appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor
Lynn Meskell standing in front of a glass display case at the Penn Museum.

Lynn Meskell is the Richard D. Green Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in the Department of Anthropology in the School of Arts & Sciences, a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the graduate program in Historic Preservation in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and a curator in the Middle East and Asia sections at the Penn Museum.

(Image: Eric Sucar)

Lynn Meskell appointed Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor

The world-renowned archaeologist has joint appointments in the Department of Anthropology, the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation and the Department of City and Regional Planning, and the Penn Museum as a curator in both the Asian and Near East sections.
‘Living with the Sea’
Three woman stand behind museum objects

Ashleigh David and Erin Spicola frame Kia DaSilva as she talks about the mattang (navigational chart) in front of them. Students were able to access the objects to inform the exhibition planning process. (Pre-pandemic photo.)

‘Living with the Sea’

A student-led exhibition at the Penn Museum features objects from the rarely seen Oceanian collection.

Kristina Linnea García