University of Pennsylvania officials want to engage more with the school's visitors, and a large part of that will come after a major transformation of its 130-year-old museum building.
The Penn Museum — the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology — was founded in 1887, and it has nearly 1 million objects in its collections from 350 research expeditions across the world.
It's also going through a transformation, a major element of which began Wednesday.
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The Main Entrance Hall of the 130-year-old museum building will undergo its first renovation in nearly a century as part of what Penn President Amy Gutmann calls a "dramatic reconfiguration."
This project is one element of the museum's larger Building Transformation campaign — to be announced in spring 2018 — that will include the reinstallation of most of the museum's signature galleries, and an educational and public program.
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