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Extending Time Through Space:
University of Pennsylvania Museum Dedicates
Mainwaring Wing and Stoner Courtyard
For a million ancient artifacts housed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, running out of space could have meant running out of time. When the new Mainwaring Wing for collections storage and study was completed in May 2002, it was not a moment too soon, according to Williams Director Jeremy A. Sabloff.
The new study areas, offices, and seminar rooms allow long-denied access to the collections by faculty, staff, and visiting researchers. Of more urgent significance, the climate-controlled addition will facilitate the conservation of some 10,000 priceless objects, especially the more fragile ethnographic materials. Collected from around the world over the past 100 years, the Museum's treasures will survive to tell their stories to future generations.
The new wing, designed by Atkin Olshin Law-Bell Architects, completes the symmetry envisioned by the Museum's original architects Wilson Eyre, Jr., Frank Miles Day, and Cope Stewardson. The complex has been further enhanced by the adjacent Stoner Courtyard garden, newly designed and landscaped by Olin Partnership.
Featuring plants from three continents, it is, in Dr. Sabloff's words, "an elegant new contemplative public garden space, and one that we want the regional
community to visit, use, and enjoy." |
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