Our beautiful historic building located on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus is one of Philadelphia’s premier venues for weddings, celebrations, corporate, and philanthropic events. Really a top-notch stop among the many museums to choose from in Philadelphia.
Penn Museum Collections. Search over 389,000+ object records, representing over 1.3 million objects with 279,000+ images. Read 1700+ articles. Watch over 1,100 lectures, archival, and produced films.
Our galleries celebrate the incredible and diverse accomplishments of people, and many of the objects on display come directly from our own archaeological excavations and anthropological field work.
One Ticket, Two Museums. The Penn Museum and the Mütter Museum offer a Dual Admission Ticket to visit both museums at a reduced rate. The Dual Admission Ticket must be purchased in-person at either location and cannot be reserved online. Adult $31.
Our beautiful historic building located on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus is one of Philadelphia’s premier venues for weddings, celebrations, corporate, and philanthropic events. Really a top-notch stop among the many museums to choose from in Philadelphia.
While many are familiar with the ancient Canaanites and Israelite peoples through stories from the Old Testament of the Bible, this exhibit explores the identities of these peoples in pre-historical times through the material remains that they have left behind.
The Penn Museum is located at 3260 South St., just off the South Street Bridge. Get driving directions. The Museum is near SEPTA Penn Medicine Station, several bus routes, and a short walk from 30th Street Station.
The collections of the Near East Section span from the neolithic to the early historic period, from ancient Mesopotamia to the Islamic world, and include Byzantine gold from Beth Shean, Early Dynastic sculpture from ancient Iraq, and Persian manuscripts.
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum) has produced the results of research conducted by the Museum since our first expedition to Nippur in 1889.
The Penn Museum houses a fine collection of ancient, medieval and early modern written material from Egypt. The entire collection spans about three thousand years from about 1300 BCE to modern times. Individual items in the collection are written on three different types of material: papyrus, leather and paper.