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On the central campus of the University of Pennsylvania in west Philadelphia, the Penn Museum (formally the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) is one of the most important university-affiliated archaeology and anthropology museums in the world. The museum was founded in 1887, with its handsome Italian Renaissance-style main building completed in December 1899 to house the rapidly growing collections from the university's extensive programme of international archae...