The Aymara, Quechua, and Yuracaré of Bolivia are represented in early collections acquired by Max Uhle and William Curtis Farabee. The Penn Museum has one of the largest collections of African ethnographic and archaeological objects in the country.
Individual donations significantly contribute to the collections in many areas.
[5], The library collection was maintained by a staff of a single part-time librarian until 1942 when Cynthia Griffin became the first full-time librarian.
Penn Museum Founded in 1887, the Penn Museum has always been one of the world’s great archaeology and anthropology research museums, and the largest university museum in the United States.
Penn Museum's Mesoamerican collections include objects from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Costa Rica. Proskouriakoff cross-referenced the glyphs on the Stela to historical events, eventually decoding the hieroglyphic language.
There is a special emphasis on works published within the field of Mesoamerican archaeology as well as works which relate to the current research of the university's professors. [5] This library contained an estimated 4,098 volumes of which the ethnology and linguistics of the American Indigenous peoples were the primary disciplines. Since 1958, the Penn Museum has published Expedition magazine. Proskouriakoff's discovery transformed the field of Maya Studies. Home - Penn Museum Open Tues–Sun, 10 am–5 pm. His collection illustrates the diverse sculptural forms found among the different cultural groups in the Central African region. [16] Morton has long been criticized for promoting white supremacist views, leveraging science to uphold racism, poor research quality, and unethically collecting human remains without consent. [19] [20][21][22] More than a dozen crania, along with mid-19th century measuring devices, were on public display at the museum from 2012-2013 in an exhibit named "Year of Proof: Making and Unmaking Race". ペンシルベニア大学考古学人類学博物館（The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Penn Museum）は、アメリカ合衆国ペンシルベニア州フィラデルフィアに位置する、ペンシルベニア大学の博物館, 座標: 北緯39度56分56秒 西経75度11分28秒 / 北緯39.9490度 西経75.1911度 / 39.9490; -75.1911, List of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities, http://www.penn.museum/current-expedition.html, “The Chinese Rotunda: A stunning setting for a remarkable collection”, http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/galleries/china.html, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology website, The Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Secrets of the Silk Road, UPenn Museum, Symposium: Reconfiguring the Silk Road, New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity, https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ペンシルベニア大学考古学人類学博物館&oldid=79194276. They were relocated to the Elkins Library up until 1971 upon when they were moved to their final home in the University extension of the museum.
Penn Museum's extensive collections fall into two main divisions: archaeology, the artifacts recovered from the past by excavation, and ethnology, the objects and ideas collected from living peoples. Moore enlisted the help of her friend and Philadelphia artist, Emerson Ruffin, to create the dress titled “Wearable Literature”[9], now a popular item in the Penn Museum’s African galleries.[10]. During a museum sponsored expedition in 1936–1937, Curator of General Ethnology, Henry Usher Hall spent seven months conducting ethnographic research among the Sherbro people of Sierra Leone. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European museums regularly sponsored such excavations throughout the Mediterranean and Near East, sharing the ownership of their discoveries with the host country.
Charles Klauder designed the Coxe Memorial Wing, which opened in 1926 to house the Museum's Egyptian collection.
She also augmented communication networks between the library and libraries worldwide. Prior to her arrival use of the library had been limited to employees of the museum and university professor; however, Griffin extended the accessibility to include students.