Student Gala to Celebrate the Native North America Gallery Opening

Event Description

• Admission and food are FREE for all Penn students with a PennCard. 
• No registration required. 
• Cocktail/formal attire is welcome but not required. 

The Museum welcomes all Penn students to join us for the opening of the Native North America Gallery. This exclusive event will include Graduate Guide-led mini-tours, a performance of The Magic of Storytelling with local storyteller and educator, Tchin, Loom Beading demonstrations by Anishinaabe Artist, Madison Waters, member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and a spread of appetizers inspired by indigenous North American foods. Please visit Penn Museum’s webpage for more information.

About the exhibition:

Showcasing more than 250 items from the Penn Museum’s North American collections alongside contemporary Native art pieces, the Native North America Gallery will share complex histories and living relationships of Indigenous peoples to their ancestral homelands.

Developed in partnership with eight Indigenous consulting curators, this 2,000-sq.-ft. interactive exhibition will explore the political, religious, linguistic, and artistic self-determination of Native peoples across the United States who are still thriving—despite a historic agenda to erase Indigenous identity, culture, and language.