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PEnn Museum Dia De Los Muertos

Penn Museum to celebrate Día de los Muertos with large-scale ofrenda, live dance and pan de muerto

Do yoga, meditation and sound baths after hours at the Penn Museum

Meditation at Penn Museum

Minecraft fans can explore the game’s ancient-world roots at Penn Museum

Sphinx of the Pharaoh Ramses II

Visitors can walk through a 4,300-year-old tomb chapel when Penn Museum’s new Egypt galleries open in December

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Visiting Philly? Instead of seeing the Liberty Bell, go to these historical museums

Eastern State Penitentiary

Penn Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences slash summer camps due to revenue constraints

Penn Museum camps

Celebrate the Lunar New Year at Penn Museum with 'CultureFest!'

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Penn Museum to license online tool developed by Barnes Foundation that provides up-close look at artifacts

Penn Museum Barnes collab

Penn Museum workers authorize strike, demanding higher salaries

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Penn archaeologists help uncover 3,600-year-old tomb of Egyptian pharaoh

Egypt Penn Museum

Penn Museum to return 19th century skull of Indigenous child to tribe leaders in Maine

Penn Museum Wabanaki

Lunar New Year, 'DWTS' Live and a tattoo festival: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide

Penn Museum to mark Lunar New Year with traditional lion dances on Jan. 25

Lunar New Year

Descendants of MOVE bombing victims say Penn Museum has more remains

MOVE bombing remains

Penn Museum finds more human remains from MOVE bombing

Penn Museum MOVE

Penn Museum to host Garden Jams outdoor concert series this summer

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A St. Patrick's Day parade, pop-up bar and the Oscars: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide St. Patrick's Day Parade

New course series by Science History Institute explores how scientists perpetuated racist myths

Science History Institute series

Without clearly notifying public, Penn Museum buries remains of 19 Black Philadelphians held in its collection

Penn Museum burial

A tattoo festival and Lunar New Year celebration: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide tattoo festival

This 5,000-year-old stone tablet at the Penn Museum is among the oldest examples of writing in the world

Penn ancient tablet

Penn Museum abruptly closes amid protest over MOVE bombing victims' remains

MOVE Penn Museum

West Philly community archaeology project aims to recover forgotten stories of the Black Bottom

Archaeology Project Black Bottom

An ABBA dance party and a goat walk: Your weekend guide to things to do in Philly

Philly goat walk

Celebrate Women's History Month with special programs at Philly museums and libraries

Museums Womens History Month

Iceless curling and Bierfest 'beerlesque': Your weekend guide to things to do in Philly

things to do bierfest beerlesque

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Penn Museum to celebrate Women's History Month with live dance performances and craft workshops

CultureFest Women's History Month

Penn Museum researchers discover ancient restaurant in Iraq with 5,000-year-old fridge

Penn Museum Researchers Aerial

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Kids can visit the Penn Museum for free during winter break

Penn Museum winter break

Celebrate Lunar New Year at Penn Museum with a traditional lion dance and lantern crafts

Lunar New Year Penn Museum

Watch a traditional Mexican folk dance during the Day of the Dead festival at Penn Museum

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Celebrate Women's History Month in Philadelphia with special programming and free museum admission

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For Valentine's Day, listen to a dramatic reading of Marian Anderson's love letters

Marian Anderson Letters

More Philly museums requiring visitors to be vaccinated against COVID-19

Philadelphia museums COVID-19 vaccine requirements

Penn Museum will repatriate human skulls once used to support white supremacist theories

Penn Museum Skulls

Penn professor retires amid fallout from Nazi salute given during Zoom session

Penn Schuyler Retires

'Invisible Beauty' at Penn Museum shows archaeology through a new lens

'Invisible Beauty' at Penn Museum

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Penn Museum celebrating Lunar New Year with virtual events

Lunar New year CultureFest at Penn Museum

Penn Museum hosting virtual tour and beer tasting

Penn Museum Ancient Alcohol event

Learn the history of mythical monsters on Night Vision tour at Penn Museum

Penn Museum sphinx gallery

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Celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Penn Museum

Lunar New Year 2020

Penn Museum celebrating Day of the Dead

Day of the Dead at the Penn Museum

Enjoy free admission to 10 Philly museums and cultural institutions on Museum Day

Museum Day participants – Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia

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