New Penn Museum Exhibit Makes Headlines

Not one to rest on its laurels, the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has unveiled its newest newsworthy exhibit. Sunday's Wall Street Journal featured a piece on Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11, which opened August 20 and runs through November 6. While we typically think of the museum as a crypt for mummies and such, the exhibit, which features 15 objects recovered from Ground Zero that have never displayed to the public, aligns with the archaeology museum's focus on "reconstruct[ing] lost moments in time through objects."

On Sunday, September 11, the museum is offering pay-as-you-wish admission to the exhibit for an afternoon of special programming, so take advantage of a post-NSO-pre-I-have-three-papers-and-two-midterms-tomorrow lazy Sunday and head down for a poignant but important experience.