{"id":67,"date":"2008-11-25T23:20:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-02-18T07:59:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T07:59:05","slug":"through-the-gates-of-the-museum-in-world-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2008\/11\/through-the-gates-of-the-museum-in-world-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Through the gates of the museum in World archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founding of the University of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/List-Of-Museum.htm\">Pennsylvania Museum<\/a><\/strong> in the 1880s was part of the great wave of institution-building that took place in the United States after the <strong>American Civil War<\/strong>.  The new wealth created after the Civil War gave incentive to philanthropy as a means of earning social recognition, and many wealthy and civic minded Americans thus turned their attention to cultural life and institutions.<br \/>\nThe founding of the University of Pennsylvania Museum in the 1880s was part of the great wave of institution-building that took place in the United States after the American Civil War.  The new wealth created after the Civil War gave incentive to philanthropy as a means of earning social recognition, and many wealthy and civic minded Americans thus turned their attention to cultural life and institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philadelphia<\/strong> was at the centre of the industrial and cultural ethos of the times. It was known for its manufacturing, railroads, and commerce, but also for its institutions of learning, such as the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/american_archaeology.htm\" target=\"_blank\">American <\/a>Philosophical Society<\/strong>, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the University of Pennsylvania. The latter, though founded in the middle of the 18th century, was undergoing a renaissance under Provost William Pepper, a physician and medical professor, and under his leadership, the institution was transformed into a modern university. When, in 1887, he was approached to help send an  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/historical_archaeology.htm\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 1px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/images\/penn-main-pic.jpg\" alt=\"World archeology describe by museum\" \/>world archaeological<\/strong><\/a> expedition to <strong>Mesopotamia<\/strong>, he leapt at the prospect.<br \/>\nA group of prominent <strong>Philadelphia <\/strong>men promised to fund the fieldwork, and the University resolved that \u2018all finds which can be exported are to \u2026 become the property of the University of Pennsylvania, provided the said University furnish suitable accommodations for the same in a fire-proof building\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founding of the University of Pennsylvania Museum in the 1880s was part of the great wave of institution-building that took place in the United States after the American Civil War. The new wealth created after the Civil War gave incentive to philanthropy as a means of earning social recognition, and many wealthy and civic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-archaeology","tag-american-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}