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Penn Museum

1887 · 19th century · Also known as University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

The Penn Museum, formally the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is a museum and research institution in Philadelphia founded in 1887. It has sponsored excavations across the world, including at Ur with the British Museum, at Hasanlu in Iran and at sites in Egypt and Central America. Its collections number around a million objects.

Penn Museum
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Penn Museum. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/penn-museum
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