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2015–2016 Annual Report 2015–2016 Annual Report 2015–2016 Annual Report 3 EXECUTIVE MESSAGE 4 THE NEW PENN MUSEUM 7 YEAR IN REVIEW 8 PENN MUSEUM 2015–2016: BY THE GEOGRAPHY 8 Teaching & Research: Penn Museum-Sponsored Field Projects 10 Excavations at Anubis-Mountain, South Abydos (Egypt) 12 Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey) — Historical Landscape Preservation at Gordion — Gordion Cultural Heritage Education Project 16 The Penn Cultural Heritage Center — Conflict Culture Research Network (Global) — Safeguarding the Heritage of Syria & Iraq Project (Syria and Iraq) — Tihosuco Heritage Preservation & Community Development Project (Mexico) — Wayka Heritage Project (California, USA) 20 Pelekita Cave in Eastern Crete (Greece) 21 Late Pleistocene Pyrotechnology (France) 22 The Life & Times of Emma Allison (Canada) 23 On the Wampum Trail (North America) 24 Louis Shotridge & the Penn Museum (Alaska, USA) 25 Smith Creek Archaeological Project (Mississippi, USA) 26 Silver Reef Project (Utah, USA) 26 South Jersey (Vineland) Project (New Jersey, USA) 27 Collections: New Acquisitions 31 Collections: Outgoing Loans & Traveling Exhibitions 35 PENN MUSEUM 2015–2016: BY THE NUMBERS 40 PENN MUSEUM 2015–2016: BY THE MONTH 57 SUPPORTING THE MISSION 58 Leadership Supporters 62 Loren Eiseley Society 64 Expedition Circle 66 The Annual Fund 67 Sara Yorke Stevenson Legacy Circle 68 Corporate, Foundation, & Government Agency Supporters Objects on the cover, inside cover, and above were featured 71 THE GIFT OF TIME in the special exhibition The Golden Age of King Midas, from 72 Exhibition Advisors & Contributors February 13, 2016 through November 27, 2016. 74 Penn Museum Volunteers On the cover: Bronze cauldron with siren and demon 76 Board of Overseers attachments. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations 18516. 77 Director’s Council Above: Black Polished Goat Jug from Gordion. Museum of 77 Penn Museum Advisory Board Anatolian Civilizations 12789. 78 Women’s Committee 78 Young Friends of the Penn Museum More information on these objects and the exhibition can be found at www.penn.museum/exhibitions/past-exhibitions. 79 In Memoriam All photos by the Penn Museum unless otherwise noted. 80 Curatorial Sections & Museum Centers 82 Penn Museum Department Staff Executive Message THE OBJECTS IN OUR COLLECTION REPRESENT a huge swath of 5,400 7th-grade students from 97 local schools, including 436 human history; some of them are more than 10,000 years old. students in 54 Autistic Support/Life Skills Support classrooms. But our knowledge of these objects and their contexts—and the We are deeply grateful to the GRoW Annenberg Foundation ways we showcase them for the public—are ever-changing, and and to the many individual, foundation, government agency, 2015–2016 was a remarkable year of frsts for the Penn Museum. and corporate donors who generously supported this expanding We are proud to add continually to the Museum’s reputation and program in 2015–2016. And access and learning programs to report highlights in teaching and public engagement. overall were expanded with new initiatives like Archaeological Left Our special exhibition The Golden Age of King Midas, curated Adventures Homeschool Days, over 20 new programs for Chairman Mike by Dr. Brian Rose, opened in February 2016, featuring more International Classroom, and a range of new accessibility Kowalski and Williams Director Dr. Julian than 120 magnificent objects on loan from the Republic of programs for students with autism and other disabilities. Siggers in the Lower Turkey, many of which have never before been displayed Also in its second year, the Center for the Analysis of Egyptian Gallery. in North America. The exhibition also showcased Penn’s 65 Archaeological Materials (CAAM) welcomed new teaching remarkable years of excavations at Gordion, Turkey, continuing specialists in archaeobotany and archaeometallurgy, and as recently as this summer (see page 12), under Brian’s direction. significantly increased undergraduate and graduate enrollments The opening of Midas was marked with the Museum’s first gala for all courses. The especially popular ANTH 148 Food and Fire in recent years, celebrating this world exclusive exhibition. (Fall 2015) fully enrolled with 42 students almost immediately, Three hundred guests, in gold or golden-accented dress, per with a long waiting list, a testament to Mainwaring Teaching the invitation’s instruction “black tie with the Midas touch,” Specialist for Archaeozoology Kate Moore, whose dynamic made for a glittering scene in our iconic Rotunda. and inspiring instruction was recognized by the Dean’s Award Midas was not the only exhibition to showcase the research for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty in April. In and artifacts that make the Museum unique. Sacred Writings: addition, Food and Fire was approved to fulfill the College of Extraordinary Texts of the Biblical World commemorated the first Arts & Science’s General Education Requirement. visit to Philadelphia by Pope Francis and the World Meeting of None of this activity, nor the myriad additional research, Families with a display of rare early texts from the Museum’s teaching, and engagement activities documented in the pages collections and the Penn Libraries, including the earliest version that follow, would be possible without the generosity—of time, of the Mesopotamian flood story, written on a clay tablet from of talent, of financial resources—of our many volunteers and nearly 3,500 years ago. Sex: A History in 30 Objects explored the supporters. Our gratitude to each and every one of them is theme of the 2015–2016 Penn Humanities Forum on Sex through profound. We wish, in particular, to express thanks to Overseer a survey of the Museum’s collections. Magic in the Ancient World, John Hover, chair from 2000 to 2006, whose term concluded in informed by a curatorial seminar led by curators Grant Frame 2015–2016; we are delighted that he will add his lively presence and Robert Osterhout and continuing through May 2017, surveys and wise counsel to our Director’s Council. We also owe a debt of ancient magical thinking through 81 magical objects from Egypt, gratitude to the Penn Museum Women’s Committee, an integral Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome. And Kourion at the Crossroads: part of the Museum since its formation in 1937, and founder of an Exploring Ancient Cyprus was our second exhibition led by a extraordinary number of its departments and programs. With its student curatorial team. mission so well fulfilled, the members decided to cease formal We instituted now-popular monthly members’ tours of operations as a separate 501(c)(3) in 2016; as we celebrate their exhibitions and galleries, beginning with Sacred Writings. And magnificent achievements, we could not be more grateful for we engaged audiences of all ages, members and non-members their service. alike, with expanded public programs, ranging from Gallery We look forward to more programs, engaged audiences, and Romps (ages 3-6), to themed Young Professionals networking new discoveries to come, and express deepest thanks to the loyal evenings, to new adult group daytime tours. and generous volunteers and donors who make them possible. A new Storytime Expedition Series (K-3) attracted some of our youngest visitors, while a new Teen Summer Internship Program brought together high school students interested in archaeology, anthropology, education, and related fields for three weeks of hands-on experience in areas including Learning Programs, Exhibitions, Archives, and the Near East and Physical Michael J. Kowalski, W74 Julian Siggers, Ph.D. Anthropology Sections. The Penn Museum also hosted 38 Chairman Williams Director Chinese undergraduates in a four-week course through the Jiangsu Education Service for International Education (JESIE), and took workshops into classrooms around the U.S. and the world through increasingly popular Distance Learning offerings. In its second full year, the landmark partnership program with the Philadelphia School District Unpacking the Past reached over PENN MUSEUM ANNUA L REP O R T 2015–2016 The New Penn Museum WHILE OUR MESSAGE ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE highlights Entrance for all of our visitors. New signage on the South Street notable activities in 2015–2016 across a breadth of research, façade and corner of 33rd and South more clearly directs visitors teaching, collections stewardship, and public engagement to our entrances and our current exhibitions and programming. programs—the very pillars on which our mission to transform Concurrently, planning and preparation for transforming understanding of the human experience stands—the year also the interior continued apace, in close coordination with the saw enormous progress in our “Building Transformation” University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) as their own project. In broad strokes, this project will see the complete construction of a New Patient Pavilion (designed by renowned 4 renovation of the historic Harrison and Coxe Wings, opened architect Norman Foster and Associates) proceeds immediately to 5 in 1915 and 1926 respectively, and the reinstallation of our south. Support from UPHS and the University’s Department the iconic galleries housed in those wings showcasing the of Facilities and Real Estates Services, along with a number of gifts extraordinary collections we steward from Egypt and Asia. The including a lead gift from Board Chair Mike Kowalski and family project will also encompass new galleries of the ancient Middle through the Kowalski Family Foundation, enabled us to
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