2025 SPRING LECTURES
ARCE-PA Museum Meet-Up Info
This event is in-person
To help us with numbers, and make sure we don't leave anyone behind,
please RSVP by June 4 for this event.
ARCE members are responsible for their transportation and entry ticket to visit the museum.
Please meet in the Brooklyn Museum entrance lobby at 11:30 AM.
Following the gallery visit, you are free
to have lunch, visit other parts of the museum, and enjoy the rest of
your day however you wish.
Please visit the Brooklyn Museum website for information on entry fees, special exhibitions, directions to the museum, and parking information.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at info@arce-pa.org.
Bio: Assistant Curator Morgan Moroney
Dr. Morgan E. Moroney is the Assistant Curator of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum. She received her PhD in Egyptian Art and Archaeology from Johns Hopkins University in 2022 and her BA in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago in 2010. She was a 2021-2022 ARCE Fellow, and conducted research in Egypt on winemaking scenes in elite tombs for her dissertation, “Pregnant with Wine: A Gendered Approach to Wine Materiality in Egyptian Funerary Ritual.” Her most recent co-curated exhibition with Brooklyn, Unraveling the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt, is currently touring to eight venues in Japan. Moroney worked as a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum where she co-curated an exhibition of Egyptian art from the Eton College Myers collection. In 2019-2020 she was the Robert and Nancy Hall fellow at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. Moroney has excavated at the Temple Precinct of the Goddess Mut in Luxor, Egypt with Hopkins, and at two Aksumite sites in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Prior to graduate school, she worked for five years as a publicist in New York at Little, Brown and Company.
Information on the Egyptian Collection at the Brooklyn Museum:
The ancient Egyptians were an indigenous African people who first appeared in the southern (Upper Egypt) Nile Valley by 4500 B.C.E. and spread northward to Lower Egypt. Joined over five thousand years by other Africans from Nubia and Libya, as well as Semites, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, their distinctly multicultural society produced an astonishing array of objects and structures.
Egypt is the oldest continuously documented civilization on the African continent, and our collection, begun in 1902, tells the story of its art from its earliest known origins until the Roman period. Our Egyptian galleries contain more than 1,200 objects that include sculpture, relief, paintings, pottery, and papyri. On view are such treasures as a wooden and gilded statuette of Amunhotep III, an exquisite chlorite head of a Middle Kingdom princess, an early stone deity from 2650 B.C.E., a relief from the tomb of a man named Akhty-hotep, and a highly abstract female terracotta statuette created over five thousand years ago.
The Mummy Chamber is a special section that explores the rituals related to mummification and the Egyptian belief that the body must be preserved to ensure eternal life. On view are the elaborately decorated coffin and mummy board of the mayor of Thebes, Pasebakhaienipet; wall reliefs from the tomb of the vizier Nespeqashuty; several mummies; and a nearly twenty-five-foot-long Book of the Dead scroll.
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Meet up at a Museum is back!
Brooklyn Museum!
Entrance fees for ARCE-PA In-Person Lectures are:
$10 for the general public
$7 for Penn Museum members/Penn Staff/Penn Faculty
$5 for Students with ID
FREE for ARCE-PA Members, ARCE Members, & children under 12, unless otherwise stated.
All ARCE-PA entry fees will be taken at the door only of the lecture venue at the ARCE-PA table.
Light refreshments will be served starting at 3 pm.
Per the Penn Museum COVID-19 protocols, masks are optional.
If you are interested in joining ARCE or need to renew your membership*, please visit:
https://www.arce.org/membership
*Please do not forget to associate with the "Pennsylvania Chapter" in order to stay up to date with ARCE-PA events.
