Guided Tour: Monsters, Myths, and Legends at Penn Museum

Your expert tour guide will share scholarly insights and rich interpretation beyond the object labels—with a spooky twist. Ask questions, explore complex themes, and unlock surprising connections across cultures as you encounter the myths, monsters, and legends conjured by ancient imaginations.

Where in the Museum do monsters hide, with demons and guardians lurking inside? With amulet in hand, hunt creatures small and grand!

Discover vampires, werewolves, sea monsters, and other mythic beasts that tiptoe the line between fear and fascination. Alongside your seasoned guide to strange and sublime, you’ll dig deeper into the meaning of monsters: what they protected, what they punished, and what they revealed about the cultures that imagined them.

Space is limited.