Museum Details |
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Name: | University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
Street Address: | 33rd and Spruce Sts |
City: | Philadelphia |
State: | Pennsylvania |
Country: | United States |
Zipcode: | 19104-6324 |
Telephone: | 215-898-4000 |
Fax: | 215-898-0657 |
Email: | websiters@museum.upenn.edu |
Website: | http://www.upenn.edu/museum/ |
Staff Contacts: | Dir: Dr. Richard M. Leventhal 215-898-4050 fax 215-573-9369;
Keeper of Collections: Dr. Janet Monge (Phys Anthr) |
Quality of Online Info: | Website under construction; Floor Plan links to Mesoamerican Gallery overview, which describes in detail the Mayan culture and museum art objects |
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Focus: | MESOAMERICAN GALLERY: objects from Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica; Maya objects include stelae and altars from Caracol and Piedras Negras, pottery from Guatemala, shells from Piedras Negras; Jaina figurine and textile from Guatemala;
Stela 14 from Piedras Negras, Stelae 6 and 16,and a sculpted altar from Caracol; Stone shield with representation of Fire God from Copan,
figurines, painted clay vessels |
Source: | Grube, Nikolai, ed. Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest. Cologne: Konemann, 2000. 452, 455. Schulze, Marco and Boris Eggers, eds. Museums of the World. 11th Rev. and Enl. ed. Volume 2.
Handbook of International Documentation and Information Series. Volume 16.
Muchen: K.G. Saur, 2004. 787. U of Utah Libraries.
http://www.museum.upenn.edu |