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Penn Museum's 1st DEI leader

The museum takes its first step to be more welcoming.

March 17th, 2022

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December 12, 2022, marks the 200-year anniversary of the start of US-Mexico diplomatic relations. Photo: Jensen Toussaint/AL DÍA News.

Heritage and History

200 Years of US-Mexico

December 16th, 2022

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The entrance to the Penn Museum East Mediterranean gallery. A stand reading the name of the exhibit holds a mosaic recovered from the floor of a building.

Penn Museum’s New Gallery

November 17th, 2022

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The 11th annual Día de los Muertos is this weekend. Photo Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Heritage and History

The 11th Día de los Muertos

October 24th, 2022

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Philadelphia native and groundbreaking opera singer, Marian Anderson will see her life and legacy honored at the Penn Museum in February. Photo Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.

Heritage and History

Spotlight on Marian Anderson

January 13th, 2022

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Penn Museum's newest art exhibit is titled, The Stories We Wear. Photo: Jensen Toussaint/AL DÍA News.

Heritage and History

The Stories We Wear

September 25th, 2021

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Carlos José Pérez Sámano has been appointed as the Penn Museum's first Resident Artist and he's launching a series of free poetry workshops for the Latinx community. Photo: Penn Museum

Heritage and History

‘One Shared Root’

July 27th, 2021

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Members of MOVE revolutionary group in front of their house in the Powelton Village neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1978. Photo: Leif Scoogfors/Getty Images

There will be no justice

May 3rd, 2021

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Celebrating Dia de los Muertos in Philadelphia Photo: TOM A. STANLEY/PENN MUSEUM

Heritage and History

Dia De Los Muertos in Philly

October 1st, 2020

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The 2019 Prospanica End of Year Celebration was held at the Penn Museum. Photos: Peter Fitzpatrick/ AL DIA News

Prospanica at Penn Museum

December 10th, 2019

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The new Mexico and Central America gallery features 250 artifacts. Photo: Courtesy of the Penn Museum

Heritage and History

A new view of Mesoamerica

November 27th, 2019