The Penn State Museum Consortium will hold its fall 2024 "Night at the Museums" on Thursday, Sept. 12. Participating museums and galleries on the University Park campus will be open extended hours from 4 to 8 p.m.
While examining thin sections of rocks in a microscope, Angelina Santamaria saw both research and art.
To coincide with the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences’ (EMS) 125th anniversary celebration, the EMS Museum & Art Gallery is unveiling a new exhibit on Friday, Oct. 14, dedicated to Evan Pugh, a science pioneer and Penn State's first president.
Did you know that there are dozens of museums and collections across the University Park campus? Millions of specimens, including fish, birds and insects, historic objects, and cultural artifacts including paintings, sculptures, scientific and musical instruments, and more, are waiting at almost every turn.
For the past few months, Patti Wood Finkle, the new collections manager, has been busy sifting through the EMS Museum & Art Gallery’s vast collection of roughly 20,000 items.
A newly discovered fossil deposit near Kunming, China, may hold the keys to understanding howv organisms laid the foundations for life on land and at sea today, according to an international team of researchers.
Penn State University Libraries have recognized seven outstanding faculty and staff, including Aaron Procious, a staff member at the Fletcher L. Byrom Earth and Mineral Sciences Library.
For most people, starting a job during a global pandemic can prove difficult. But for museum collections managers, it turns out, things aren’t all bad.