Philadelphia, PA

May refer to: 
University of Pennsylvania Museum or the Philadelphia Art Museum (formerly Pennsylvania Museum) or the Philadelphia Commercial Museum
Country: 
USA
Destination category: 
General
Institutional history: 

University of Pennsylvania Museum founded in 1890.

The Philadelphia Art Museum founded in 1877 as the Pennsylvania Museum.

The Philadelphia Commercial Museum founded in 1897 and closed in 1994.

Ancient Egyptian objects are all now largely in the University of Pennsylvania Museum

Related archive documents

Relevant publications: 

Bromberg, Anne and David P. Silverman 1997. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Egyptian art from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Minerva 8 (6), 25-27.

O'Connor, David 1987. The earliest pharaohs and the University Museum: old and new excavations: 1900-1987.Expedition 29 (1), 27-39.

Wegner, Josef and Jennifer Houser Wegner (eds) 2015. The sphinx that travelled to Philadelphia: the story of the colossal sphinx in the Penn Museum. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

William K. Simpson, and Josef W. Wegner. Photography by Tom Jenkins. Dallas Museum of Art; University of Pennsylvania Museum.

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