November
13
/ 2019
The new Penn Museum will include six new 'Global Guides’ from Africa, Mexico, and Central America. Our technology driven world allows us instant access to documentaries, blogs, and Twitter feeds from almost every village, town, and city in the world. But is tapping a five-inch screen and silently watching a “foreigner” actual “cultural diversity”? Just in case the answer is “no”, in order to teach about life in other societies, both modern and ancient, the Penn Museum’s Global Guides is an innovative program hiring and training immigrants and refugees from the countries associated with the museum’s ancient exhibits, offering visitors truly immersive multi-cultural experiences. America’s Museum of the Ancient World Introducing Global Guides Situated in cold glass museum cases, wooden
