Video Category: Lecture
Philadelphia: Colonial City to Modern Metropolis
Jeffrey Ray, former Senior Curator of the Philadelphia History Museum, talks about the history and d...
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Director’s Town Hall: Building Transformation
Skip introduction: 6:50 Members were invited to an exclusive, town-hall conversation with Dr. Jul...
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Director’s Highlights of the Penn Museum Collection
Julian Siggers, Williams Director Penn Museum The Penn Museum stewards nearly one million artifac...
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Protecting Stuff Today: Cultural Heritage Sites and the Penn Museum
Brian I. Daniels, Director of Research and Programs, Penn Cultural Heritage Center All around the...
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The Stuff You Do Not See: Conservation for a Renovated Museum
Lynn Grant, Head Conservator In the Summer of 2018, the Lower Egyptian (Sphinx) Gallery was closed ...
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A Home for our Stuff: Building the Penn Museum
Ann Brownlee, Associate Curator, Mediterranean Section The Penn Museum has been collecting "Great...
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The Stuff of Life: Animal Remains
Katherine Moore, Mainwaring Teaching Specialist, Zooarchaeology Animal “stuff” in the Museum ...
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The Stuff of Archaeology: An Introduction
Lauren Ristvet, Dyson Associate Curator, Near East Section Cities. Buildings. Graves. Pottery. An...
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The Destruction of Pompeii and Its Aftermath: Blacker and Denser Than Any Other Night
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE, it buried Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the surrounding settlement...
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Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia
What happens when disease strikes a city of two million people, sickening half a million and killing...
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Overturning of Space and Time: The End of the Inca Empire
Explore the collapse of the Inca Empire- once the most powerful in the America- caused by civil unre...
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Great Catastrophes in Earth History
In human history we have witnessed impressive natural disasters. These mis-events pale in comparison...
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The Great Flood and Its Aftermath
In the Great Flood of ancient Mesopotamian mythology, the gods cower from the storm as humanity teet...
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An Earthquake That Shook the World: Seismicity and Society in the Late Fourth Century CE
A concentration of late fourth- and early fifth-century sources seem to suggest that a massive earth...
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The Classic Maya Collapse: New Evidence on a Great Mystery
The Maya of the Classic Period 150–900 CE created one of the most dynamic and successful societies...
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Topple: The Reckoning and Re-Imagining of Contemporary Monuments
As America in the throes of a historical reckoning over its monuments during its most volatile elect...
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The Palace of Pharaoh Merenptah: Examining an Archaeological “Cold Case”
As part of his coronation ceremonies, Pharaoh Merenptah (reigned ca. 1213–1203 BCE) built a cere...
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The Lasting Legacies of Mesopotamia: Ideas, Monuments, Images
Many of the fundamental cultural features of modern western societies have their origins in the civi...
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You Want a Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument
Monuments can be more than buildings or structures. Caroline Randall Williams—author of the powerf...
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Slave Dwellings, Monuments, and the United Daughters of the Confederacy
The history of America can be told through the buildings we preserve and the monuments we raise. For...
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Commemoration and Monument in Medieval India
What makes some kinds of objects, places, or symbols especially effective claims on history, heritag...
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The War Memorials of Imperial Rome
Among the most characteristic features of ancient Rome are the war memorials that celebrated Roman v...
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Building Monuments, Monumentalizing Buildings
What makes a building a monument? Some of the buildings that hold the most meaning for us, including...
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Then and Now: Monuments, Memorials and Public Art
As symbols of collective memory, monuments and memorials have had very different meanings to those w...
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The Earliest Reformer? Urukagina of Girsu and His New Order
As society became more complex and cities developed in southern Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) around 50...
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MANSA MUSA: A Revolutionary view of Education & Wealth In 14th Century Mali
Around 1312 CE, Kankan Musa, Sundiata’s nephew, assumed the throne of Mali—one of the most impor...
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Emiliano Zapata From Many Angles
Emiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary general, is known for his varied and passionate pursuit o...
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Narmer: The First King of Upper and Lower Egypt?
Narmer was a pivotal individual who lived during the development of Egypt’s state and its rise of ...
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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s Indian Revolution: Fighting Caste, Gender, Sexuality and Forging a New Womanhood
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) was an important revolutionary political thinker, anti-caste activist,...
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Octavian, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium
By the first century BCE, Rome had gained control of the entire Mediterranean, but those conquests h...
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