Galleries and Museums

The Addams Gallery, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, exhibits work by students, faculty and visiting artists.

Art Exhibitions presents listings of exhibitions around Penn's campus and exhibitions of student and faculty art in galleries throughout the region.

Housed within the Fisher Fine Arts Library Building, the Arthur Ross Gallery presents four exhibitions of art and artifacts from around the globe, related programs, lectures and symposia each year. The exhibitions frequently engage students and faculty as guest curators though the Halpern-Rogath and Kaye Curatorial Seminars taught in the History of Art department.

The Bob and Penny Fox Art Gallery, located on the ground floor of Claudia Cohen Hall, serves primarily as an exhibit space for University students, faculty and staff artists. The gallery is also used for information fairs, small receptions, photo shoots, and poetry readings.

The Institute for Contemporary Art is free for all to engage and connect with the art of our time in various creative, flexible exhibition spaces right on Penn’s main campus. Penn undergraduates can participate in ICA as work/study interns, as members of the student advisory board, through participation in its public programs or through taking one of the year-long curatorial seminars, which operate in collaboration with the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing and the Spiegel Freshman Seminar in the History of Art.

The Morris Arboretum is a historic public garden and educational institution. It promotes an understanding of the relationship between plants, people and place through programs that integrate science, art and the humanities. x

Founded in 1887, the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is a remarkable resource for a university campus. The museum supports over 50 expeditions and research projects worldwide and houses three floors of galleries filled with art and artifacts from around the globe.

Penn students play a crucial role in the life of the museum. The Global Archaeology Field School has enabled Penn undergraduates to learn the skills of field archaeology in southern Tuscany as part of the Roman Peasant Project, while Summer Research Grants support individual students’ projects in the field.

The Clio Society trains undergraduates as museum docents, giving them invaluable experience as museum educators, and many of these docents also participate in the museum’s student advisory board.