Virtual Exhibits
All of our virtual exhibits have been created by Temple students, either as part of coursework or while working in the TALM.
PENN'S PLAGUES
This exhibit examines past Philadelphia epidemics to see what they can tell us about the response to COVID-19
MASKS
Materiality and Meaning
This exhibit explores the symbolic significance of masks in their material form and function in society.
Identity Through Displacement:
Material Culture During Colonialism
This exhibit presents a snapshot of people in the middle of the process of colonization. The material culture presented here shows both the continuation of tradition and the reimagining of identity.
Collecting Colonialism: Disembodied Culture at the Temple Museum
A view of the Penn and Rose Collections. Looking through cultural detachment of two of the museum's earliest donated ethnographic objects.
Asylum Seekers at the
Almshouse on Cypress
Colonial Philadelphia's home of the homeless
EXAMINING
VISUAL IMPERIALISM
A Ceramics Exhibition
Comparative Basket Weaving
Highlighting artifacts from our Friedlaender, Kaxinawá, and Miller collections, this exhibit explores artisan basket weaving throughout the South Pacific region and South America.
Commercial Museum of Philadelphia
This collection highlights the Philadelphia Commercial Museum. There are pieces from the 1894 Chicago World's Fair as well as pieces collected throughout the museum's history. The museum closed in 1994 and the Temple Anthropology Museum acquired the collection in the following years.