In this section you can discover outside material such as videos of Kaxinawa rituals, articles about the Almshouse, and a link to a downloadable Kaxinawa learning video game!
Current Exhibits
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VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
PENN'S PLAGUES
This exhibit examines past Philadelphia epidemics to see what they can tell us about the response to COVID-19
DOLLS OF THE WORLD
A look at how dolls embody culture
EXAMINING
VISUAL IMPERIALISM
A Ceramics Exhibition
MUSEUM AND VIRTUAL EXHIBITS
Coming soon
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.
Revealing Collections
Local prehistory through the lens of artifacts unearthed by Temple University Archaeologists.
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.
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.
Asylum Seekers at the
Almshouse on Cypress
Colonial Philadelphia's home of the homeless
MUSEUM EXHIBITS
Participatory Culture and Video Games:
The Kaxinawá and Huni Kuin: The Way of the Snake
Participatory Culture and Video Games:
The Kaxinawá and Huni Kuin:
The Way of the Snake
Ritual Ecosystems and the Kaxinawá
Stop by the Anthropology Museum in Gladfelter Hall (Lower Level) and
check out our current installation
Ritual Ecosystems and the Kaxinawá