Penn in the World

Brownlee and Brownlee recall how a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students planned an exhibition that would tell the complex and compelling story of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. They gave their students the task of assembling materials that could illustrate a similarly complete history of the Museum's work, and they collaborated with the students in devising an exhibition that would tell these parallel yet closely related stories about architecture and exploration. After their students had read the various published histories of the institution, they plunged into the Museum Archives, where they probed deeply into the records of the Museum's Sections and Departments and identified the important stories and themes that they would highlight in the exhibition.