Our beautiful historic building located on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus is one of Philadelphia’s premier venues for weddings, celebrations, corporate, and philanthropic events.

World adventure awaits all explorers at the Penn Museum. Free year-round admission, special discounts, plus invitations to popular programs and exclusive events. Unlock your benefits today.

The Penn Museum and the Mütter Museum offer a Dual Admission Ticket to visit both museums at a reduced rate. The Dual Admission Ticket must be purchased in-person at either location and cannot be reserved online.

Our beautiful historic building located on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus is one of Philadelphia’s premier venues for weddings, celebrations, corporate, and philanthropic events. Hands down, the best museum in all of Philadelphia.

Penn Museum Collections. Search over 389,000+ object records, representing over 1.3 million objects with 279,000+ images. Read 1700+ articles. Watch over 1,100 lectures, archival, and produced films.

Tour presentations are narrated by Penn Museum Graduate Guides, Penn PhD or master’s students working in the fields of archeology and anthropology. Follow along as they virtually lead you through the galleries to explore objects on display and in storage.

While our Egypt Galleries are closed for a multi-year renovation, you can see more than 200 Egyptian artifacts in Ancient Egypt: From Discovery to Display and throughout the Museum. Ask for our Explore Egypt guides at the welcome desk.

Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 1st ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. Page/Fig./Plate: 106

Explore a single gallery in depth, or traverse continents and centuries while learning the history and cultural relevance of intriguing objects throughout the Museum. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Home to over a million extraordinary artifacts and archaeological finds, the Penn Museum has been uncovering our shared humanity across continents and millennia since 1887. In bridging archaeology (the study of objects made by humans), with anthropology, (the science of humanity), we chart a course for finding one’s own place in the arc of ...