University of Pennsylvania and the Penn Museum
Benjamin Franklin's Ivy League university, home of Wharton, the world's first collegiate business school, and a great museum of archaeology.
- Open
- Campus always open; the museum is closed Mondays; check the website
- Price
- Campus free; paid museum
- Time Needed
- 2 hours
- Address
- Penn Museum: 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19104Google MapsApple Maps
- Getting There
- 34th St station (L), or a 15-minute walk from 30th Street Station.
Why Go
Penn traces its founding to Franklin in 1740. Walk Locust Walk past College Hall and the Fisher Fine Arts Library, a red Frank Furness building. The Wharton School, founded in 1881, was the world's first collegiate business school, and ENIAC, one of the first electronic computers, was built here in 1946.
The Penn Museum holds one of the world's great archaeology collections, including a 12-ton granite sphinx of Ramesses II, the largest in the Western Hemisphere, and treasures from the royal tombs of Ur.
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