Editing University of Pennsylvania (section)

==Campus==
[[File:37th and Spruce SEPTA station.jpg|thumb|[[Cope and Stewardson]], the primary architects for Penn's campus, were Penn professors who designed this Quadrangle dormitory in a [[Collegiate Gothic]] style. This image, taken in 2007, includes a replica of a non operational 1920s trolley car, similar to version that used to run down [[Locust Street]], and now forms part of an entrance to [[SEPTA]]'s [[37th Street station (SEPTA)|37th Street subway station]]]]
The University of Pennsylvania's campus spans approximately 299 acres in West Philadelphia, featuring a blend of historic and modern architecture. Key facilities include the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, the Penn Museum, and the recently constructed Pennovation Center, which serves as a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. 

Much of the current architecture on Penn's campus was designed by the [[Philadelphia]]-based architecture firm [[Cope and Stewardson]], whose owners were Philadelphia born and raised architects and Penn professors who also designed [[Princeton University]] and a large part of [[Washington University in St. Louis]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/walter-cope/ | title=Walter Cope | access-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323061145/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/walter-cope/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/john-stewardson/ | title=John Stewardson | website=University Archives and Records Center | access-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-date=March 23, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323060904/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/john-stewardson/ | url-status=live |publisher=Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania}}</ref> They were known for having combined the [[Gothic architecture]] of the [[University of Oxford]] and [[University of Cambridge]] with the local landscape to establish the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Collegiate Gothic]] style.<ref>{{Philadelphia Architects and Buildings |ar=23024 |Cope & Stewardson (fl. 1885–1912)}}</ref>

Penn's main artery at center of [[University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District|Penn's Campus Historic District]] is Locust Walk, a pedestrian only walkway first announced by Penn President, [[Harold Stassen]] in 1948.<ref> Stassen was quoted in Volume 47, no. 4 (December 1948) issue: [pages 13-15] of the ''Pennsylvania Gazette'' that Locust Walk would make Penn, “one of the most beautiful metropolitan campuses in the world. The plan will result in a campus that is both utilitarian and beautiful.” see https://archives.upenn.edu/digitized-resources/docs-pubs/institutional-planning/gazette-expansion-plans-revealed-1948/ retrieved December 5, 2024</ref> Work began in the summer of 1960, and was completed in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Leong |first1=Jeanne |title=For the Record: Locust Walk |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2015-10-22/record/record-locust-walk |website=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=5 December 2024 |date=22 October 2015}}</ref>
[[File:Locust Walk - UPenn (53589301557).jpg|thumb|Penn's main artery, Locust Walk, a pedestrian artery traversing six blocks from 40th Street to 35th Street in [[University City, Philadelphia|University City]], in March 2024]]
The present core campus covers over {{convert|299|acre|ha}} in a contiguous area of West Philadelphia's University City section, and the older heart of the campus comprises the [[University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District]]. All of Penn's schools and most of its research institutes are located on this campus. The surrounding neighborhood includes several restaurants, bars, a large upscale grocery store, and a movie theater on the western edge of campus. Penn's core campus borders [[Drexel University]] and is a few blocks from the University City campus of [[Saint Joseph's University]], which absorbed [[University of the Sciences]] in Philadelphia in a merger, and [[The Restaurant School at Walnut Hill College]].

[[Wistar Institute]], a cancer research center, is also located on campus. In 2014, a new seven-story glass and steel building was completed next to the institute's original brick edifice built in 1897 further expanding collaboration between the university and the Wistar Institute.<ref>{{cite news|last=Clarke|first=Dominique|title=Wistar strategic plan includes new building and research|url=http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/09/wistar_strategic_plan_includes_new_building_and_research|access-date=November 10, 2011 |newspaper=The Daily Pennsylvanian|date=September 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121203226/http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2011/09/wistar_strategic_plan_includes_new_building_and_research |archive-date=January 21, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Module 6 Utility Plant and Garage at Penn was designed by BLT Architects and completed in 1995. Module 6 is located at 38th and Walnut and includes spaces for 627 vehicles, {{convert|9000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} of storefront retail operations, a 9,500-ton chiller module and corresponding extension of the campus chilled water loop, and a 4,000-ton ice storage facility.<ref>{{cite web|title=University of Pennsylvania Module 6 Utility Plant and Garage|url=http://www.blta.com/#/3/0/4/7/|publisher=BLT Architects|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812175412/http://blta.com/#/3/0/4/7/|archive-date=August 12, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2010, in its first significant expansion across the [[Schuylkill River]], Penn purchased {{convert|23|acre}} at the northwest corner of 34th Street and Grays Ferry Avenue, the then site of [[DuPont]]'s Marshall Research Labs. In October 2016, with help from architects Matthias Hollwich, [[Marc Kushner]], and [[KSS Design Group|KSS Architects]], Penn completed the design and renovation of the center piece of the project, a former paint factory named ''Pennovation Works'', which houses shared desks, wet labs, common areas, a pitch bleacher, and other attributes of a tech incubator. The rest of the site, known as South Bank, is a mixture of lightly refurbished industrial buildings that serve as affordable and flexible workspaces and land for future development. Penn hopes that "South Bank will provide a place for academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs to establish their businesses in close proximity to each other to facilitate cross-pollination of their ideas, creativity, and innovation," according to a March 2017 university statement.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pennovation.upenn.edu/news/tracking-evolution-industry-34th-and-grays-ferry |title=Tracking The Evolution Of Industry At 34th And Grays Ferry |last=Helmer |first=Madeleine |date=March 16, 2017 |publisher=Pennovation Works University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194534/https://www.pennovation.upenn.edu/news/tracking-evolution-industry-34th-and-grays-ferry |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Parks and arboreta===
{{Further|Morris Arboretum}}
In 2007, Penn acquired about {{convert|35|acre|ha}} between the campus and the [[Schuylkill River]] at the former site of the [[Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center|Philadelphia Civic Center]] and a nearby {{convert|24|acre|ha|adj=on}} site then owned by the [[United States Postal Service]]. Dubbed the Postal Lands, the site extends from [[Market Street (Philadelphia)|Market Street]] on the north to Penn's Bower Field on the south, including the former main regional U.S. Postal Building at 30th and Market Streets, now the regional office for the [[United States Internal Revenue Service|U.S. Internal Revenue Service]]. Over the next decade, the site became the home to educational, research, [[biomedical engineering|biomedical]], and [[Mixed-use development|mixed-use]] facilities. The first phase, comprising a park and athletic facilities, opened in the fall of 2011.

In September 2011, Penn completed the construction of the {{USD|46.5 million|long=no}}, {{convert|24|acre|ha|adj=on}} Penn Park, which features passive and active recreation and athletic components framed and subdivided by canopy trees, lawns, and meadows. It is located east of the Highline Green and stretches from [[Walnut Street (Philadelphia)|Walnut]] to [[South Street (Philadelphia)|South Street]]s.

Penn maintains two arboreta. The first, the roughly {{convert|300|acre|sp=us|adj=on}} Penn Campus Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania, encompasses the entire [[University City, Philadelphia|University City]] main campus. The campus arboretum is an urban forest with over 6,500 trees representing 240 species of trees and shrubs, ten specialty gardens and five urban parks,<ref name="arbnet">{{cite web |url=http://www.arbnet.org/morton-register/penn-campus-arboretum-university-pennsylvania-0 |title=Penn Campus Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania |website=arbnet.org |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419031738/http://www.arbnet.org/morton-register/penn-campus-arboretum-university-pennsylvania-0 |url-status=live }}</ref> which has been designated as a Tree Campus USA<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.arborday.org/programs/tree-campus-higher-education/|title=Tree Campus Higher Education at arborday.org|website=arborday.org|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=December 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231202212455/https://www.arborday.org/programs/tree-campus-higher-education/|url-status=live}}</ref> since 2009 and formally recognized as an accredited ArbNet Arboretum since 2017.<ref name="arbnet"/> Penn maintains an interactive website linked to Penn's comprehensive tree inventory, which allows users to explore Penn's entire collection of trees.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/ |title=Welcome |work=University of Pennsylvania Facilities & Real Estate |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 19, 2021 |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304222559/https://www.facilities.upenn.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 92-acre second arboretum [[Morris Arboretum]] is the official arboretum of the [[Pennsylvania|Commonwealth of Pennsylvania]] and includes more than 13,000 labelled plants of 2,500 types, representing the temperate floras of [[North America]], [[Asia]], and [[Europe]], with a primary focus on Asia.
<ref>{{cite web| url = https://gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H001351_04H.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Compton and Bloomfield| access-date = 2023-09-01| author = George E. Thomas| date = August 1978| archive-date = August 14, 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220814120207/https://gis.penndot.gov/CRGISAttachments/SiteResource/H001351_04H.pdf| url-status = live}}</ref>

===New Bolton Center===
{{main|New Bolton Center}}
Penn also owns the {{convert|687|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[New Bolton Center]], the research and large-animal health care center of its veterinary school.<ref name="arch">{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database| access-date = March 25, 2021| archive-date = July 21, 2007| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| url-status = dead}} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H096882_01H.pdf| title = Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: South Brook Farm| access-date = December 16, 2012| author = George E. Thomas| date = June 1991| archive-date = December 16, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131216182522/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H096882_01H.pdf| url-status = dead}}</ref> Located near [[Kennett Square, Pennsylvania|Kennett Square]], New Bolton Center received nationwide media attention when [[Kentucky Derby]] winner [[Barbaro (horse)|Barbaro]] underwent surgery at its Widener Hospital for injuries suffered while running in the [[Preakness Stakes]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/barbaro/|title=Barbaro|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404200850/https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/barbaro/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Libraries===<!-- This section is linked from [[NeXT]] -->
{{Further|Van Pelt Library}}
[[File:Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center - IMG 6589.JPG|thumb|[[Van Pelt Library]], Penn's main library building]]
[[File:Furness library.jpg|thumb|Penn's first standalone library, built in 1891 and designed by [[Frank Furness]], {{Circa|1915}}]]
[[File:Furness Lib interior looking N UPenn.JPG|thumb|The interior of the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design|School of Design]]'s library]]

Penn library system has grown into a system with 300 [[full-time equivalent]] (FTE) employees, and a total operating budget of more than {{USD|95&nbsp;million|long=no}}.<ref>https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reimagining-penn-libraries-brigitte-weinsteiger (accessed April 30, 2025) and {{cite news |url=https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/access/visitors |title=Penn Libraries Visitor Information |newspaper=Penn Libraries |access-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-date=March 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314193318/https://www.library.upenn.edu/about/access/visitors |url-status=live }}</ref> The library system has 6.19 million book and serial volumes as well as 4.23 million [[microform]] items and 1.11 million e-books.<ref name="Facts"/> It subscribes to over 68,000 print serials and e-journals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/|title=Penn Library Data Farm|access-date=December 24, 2009|archive-date=March 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110317083950/http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{citation |title= Data Farm|url =http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110317083950/http://datafarm.library.upenn.edu/|archive-date=March 17, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>

The university has 19 libraries.<ref>https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reimagining-penn-libraries-brigitte-weinsteiger (accessed April 30, 2025) </ref> [[Van Pelt Library]] on the Penn campus is the university's main library. The other 18 include:
*[[Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania|Annenberg School for Communication]] library located on [[Walnut Street (Philadelphia)|Walnut Street]] between 36th and 37th Streets
*Archaeology and Anthropology Library located at the [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]] 
*Biddle Law Library located on campus on the 3500 block of Sansom Street at the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Law|School of Law]]
*Chemistry Library located on campus on 3300 block of Spruce Street in the Chemistry Building 
*Dental Medicine Library on campus on the 4000 the block of [[Locust Street]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine|Dental School]] 
*[[Fisher Fine Arts Library]] located on campus on the 3400 block of Woodland Avenue 
*Holman Biotech Commons library located on campus on the 3500 block of Hamilton Walk adjacent to the Robert Wood Johnson Pavilion at the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine|Medical School]] and the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing|Nursing School]] 
*Humanities and Social Sciences Library, including [[Weigle Information Commons]], located on campus between 34th and 35th streets on Locust Street in the Van Pelt Library
*[[Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies]] library located off campus at 420 [[Walnut Street (Philadelphia)|Walnut Street]] near [[Independence Hall]] and Washington Square 
*Lea Library, a collection of [[Catholic Church]] history, located on campus between 34th and 35th streets on Locust Street on the 6th floor of the [[Van Pelt Library]] 
*Lippincott Business Library located on campus between 35th and 36th streets on Locust Street in the second floor of the Van Pelt Library
*Math/Physics/Astronomy library located on campus on 3200 block of Walnut Streets adjacent to [[The Palestra]] on the third floor of the David Rittenhouse Laboratory 
*Rare Books and Manuscripts library and Yarnall Library of Theology located on campus between 34th and 35th streets on Locust Street in Van Pelt Library 
*Veterinary Medicine Library located on the campus between 38th and 39th streets on Sansom Street at the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine|Veterinary Medicine School]] with satellite library located off campus at New Bolton Center.

Penn also maintains books and records off campus at high density storage facility.

The [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design|Penn Design School]]'s Fine Arts Library was built to be Penn's main library and the first with its own building. The main library at the time was designed by [[Frank Furness]] to be first library in nation to separate the low ceilings of the [[library stack]], where the books were stored, from forty-foot-plus high ceilinged rooms, where the books were read and studied.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWOH42D3i1U |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/hWOH42D3i1U| archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Penn's Spectacular Architecture – YouTube|website=youtube.com|date=March 18, 2011 }}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>see also Applications for Historical Landmark Status</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1971 Nomination Form, by George Thomas|url=http://uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/furness.html|access-date=July 20, 2007|archive-date=July 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200729081956/http://uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/furness.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Yarnall Library of Theology, a major American rare book collection, is part of Penn's libraries. The Yarnall Library of Theology was formerly affiliated with [[Saint Clement's Church (Philadelphia)|St. Clement's Church]] in Philadelphia. It was founded in 1911 under the terms of the wills of Ellis Hornor Yarnall (1839–1907) and Emily Yarnall, and subsequently housed at the former Philadelphia Divinity School. The library's major areas of focus are theology, patristics, and the liturgy, history and theology of the [[Anglican Communion]] and the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church in the United States of America]]. It includes a large number of rare books, incunabula, and illuminated manuscripts, and new material continues to be added.<ref>Joyce L. White, "Biographical and Historical Background of the Yarnall Library of Theology" (Offprint from ''The Library Chronicle'', University of Pennsylvania, Volume XLIII, number 2, Winter, 1979.)</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vahZAAAAMAAJ|title=Yarnall Library of Theology of St. Clement's Church, Philadelphia: The Ellis Hornor Yarnall Foundation|date=1933|publisher=Press of E. Stern & Company, Incorporated|language=en}}</ref>

===Art installations===
The campus has more than 40 notable art installations, in part because of a 1959 [[Philadelphia]] ordinance requiring total budget for new construction or major renovation projects in which governmental resources are used to include [[percent for art|1% for art]]<ref name="Abernethy1988">{{cite book|author=Lloyd M. Abernethy|title=Benton Spruance, the Artist and the Man|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZ1OhyLKEMIC&pg=PA119|year=1988|publisher=Associated University Presses|isbn=978-0-87982-517-1|pages=118–119}}</ref> to be used to pay for installation of site-specific public art,<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.phila.gov/2019-04-18-the-city-of-philadelphia-celebrates-60-years-of-percent-for-art/ |title=The City of Philadelphia Celebrates 60 Years of Percent for Art |publisher=City of Philadelphia |date=April 18, 2019 |access-date=March 16, 2021 |archive-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623194608/https://www.phila.gov/2019-04-18-the-city-of-philadelphia-celebrates-60-years-of-percent-for-art/ |url-status=live }}</ref> in part because many alumni collected and donated art to Penn, and in part because of the presence of the [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design]] on the campus.<ref name="art1">{{cite web |url=http://artcollection.upenn.edu/exhibitions/campus-sculpture-tour/ |title=Campus Sculpture Tour |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=March 16, 2021 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112195801/http://artcollection.upenn.edu/exhibitions/campus-sculpture-tour/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:King Solomon Archipenko.JPG|thumb|King [[Solomon]], cast in 1968 based on instructions by the widow of artist [[Alexander Archipenko]], now located on Penn's campus]]
[[Alexander Archipenko]]'s sculpture of King [[Solomon]] was initially loaned to Penn in 1985 by parents of a Penn student and donated in 1995 to honor the inauguration of [[Judith Rodin]] as Penn president in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=Clarification: A Colorful Collection of Outdoor Sculpture on Penn's Campus |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/archive/volumes/v62/n09/clarification-king-solomon.html |website=University of Pennsylvania Almanac |access-date=4 December 2024 |date=13 October 2015}}</ref>

In 2020, Penn installed ''Brick House'', a monumental work of art, created by [[Simone Leigh]] at the College Green gateway to Penn's campus near the corner of 34th Street and Woodland Walk. This {{convert|5,900|lb|adj=on}} bronze sculpture, which is {{convert|16|ft}} high and {{convert|9|ft}} in diameter at its base, depicts an African woman's head crowned with an afro framed by cornrow braids atop a form that resembles both a skirt and a clay house.<ref name="Brick House">{{cite web|url=https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/simoneleigh/|title=Brick House|website=The High Line|language=en-US|access-date=February 29, 2020|archive-date=December 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203172347/https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/simoneleigh/|url-status=live}}</ref> At the installation, Penn president Amy Guttman proclaimed that "Ms. Leigh's sculpture brings a striking presence of strength, grace, and beauty—along with an ineffable sense of mystery and resilience—to a central crossroad of Penn's campus."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/towering-bronze-sculpture-installed-entrance-penns-campus|title=Towering bronze sculpture installed at the entrance to Penn's campus|website=Penn Today|date=November 10, 2020|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=May 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505160358/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/towering-bronze-sculpture-installed-entrance-penns-campus|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Covenant Liberman 1976 a.JPG|thumb|''The Covenant'', designed by artist [[Alexander Liberman]] and installed at Penn in 1975]]
The ''Covenant'', known to the student body as "Dueling Tampons"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.duelingtampons.com/?m=1|title=Dueling Tees|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405140709/http://www.duelingtampons.com/?m=1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title='Dueling Tampons' graffitied |url=http://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/dueling-tampons-grafitti |website=The Daily Pennsylvanian |access-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210402012804/https://www.thedp.com/article/2014/04/dueling-tampons-grafitti |url-status=live }}</ref> or "The Tampons,"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedp.com/blog/under-the-button/2015/01/the-tampons-look-like-tampons-a-public-reminder|title=The Tampons Look Like Tampons: A Public Reminder|website=thedp.com|access-date=May 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605042010/http://www.thedp.com/blog/under-the-button/2015/01/the-tampons-look-like-tampons-a-public-reminder|archive-date=June 5, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> is a large red structure created by [[Alexander Liberman]] and located on Locust Walk as a gateway to the high-rise residences "super block." It was installed in 1975 and is made of rolled sheets of milled steel.

[[File:Jerusalem Stabile Calder 1976.JPG|thumb|''Jerusalem'', a stabile created in 1976 by [[Alexander Milne Calder|Alex "Sandy" Calder]], located between [[University of Pennsylvania School of Design|Penn's School of Design]] and the Furness Fine Arts Library]]

A white button, known as [[The Button (sculpture)|The Button]] and officially called the Split Button is a [[modern art]] sculpture designed by designed by [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[sculptor]] [[Claes Oldenburg]] (who specialized in creating oversize sculptures of everyday objects). It sits at the south entrance of [[Van Pelt Library]] and has button holes large enough for people to stand inside. Penn also has a replica of the ''[[Love (sculpture)|Love]]'' sculpture, part of a series created by [[Robert Indiana]]. It is a painted aluminum sculpture and was installed in 1998 overlooking College Green.<ref name="art1"/>
[[File:Love-sculpture-university-of-pennsylvania.JPG|thumb|The ''Love'' sculpture in 2006]]

In 2019, the [[Association for Public Art]] loaned Penn<ref name="twostatues">{{cite web |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-monumental-sculptures-arrive-campus |title=Two monumental sculptures arrive on campus |work=Penn Today |last=Shepard |first=Louisa |date=August 23, 2019 |access-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304063140/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/two-monumental-sculptures-arrive-campus |url-status=live }}</ref> two multi-ton sculptures. The works are ''Social Consciousness'', created by [[Sir Jacob Epstein]] in 1954,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://titilos.sorocabana.com/thumbnails.php?album=27 |title=Social Consciousness |website=sorocabana.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524132513/http://titilos.sorocabana.com/thumbnails.php?album=27 |archive-date=May 24, 2007}}</ref> and ''Atmosphere and Environment XII'', created by [[Louise Nevelson]] in 1970.<ref name="twostatues"/> Until the loan, both works had been located at the West Entrance to the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], the older since its creation and the Nevelson work since 1973. ''Social Consciousness'' was relocated to the walkway between Wharton's [[Lippincott Library]] and Phi Phi chapter of [[Alpha Chi Rho]] fraternity house, and ''Atmosphere and Environment XII'' is sited on Shoemaker Green between [[Franklin Field]] and Ringe Squash Courts.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/apa-to-relocate-nevelson-and-epstein-sculptures-to-penn/ |title=aPA to Relocate Nevelson and Epstein Sculptures to Penn |newspaper=Association for Public Art |date=July 9, 2019 |access-date=March 17, 2021 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303151154/https://www.associationforpublicart.org/apa-now/news/apa-to-relocate-nevelson-and-epstein-sculptures-to-penn/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Benjamin Franklin statue in front of College Hall.JPG|thumb|The ''[[Statue of Benjamin Franklin (University of Pennsylvania)|Statue of Benjamin Franklin]]'', honoring the university's founder, in front of [[College Hall (University of Pennsylvania)|College Hall]] on Penn's main campus<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ceremonies Attending the Unveiling of the Statue of Benjamin Franklin |url=https://archive.org/details/ceremoniesatten02stragoog|quote=justus c strawbridge.|access-date=November 24, 2007 |last=Strawbridge |first=Justus C. |publisher=Allen, Lane & Scott|isbn=978-1-103-92435-6|year=2009|orig-year=1899}}</ref>]]
In addition to the contemporary art, Penn also has several traditional statues, including a good number created by Penn's first Director of Physical Education Department, [[R. Tait McKenzie]].<ref>{{cite book |first1=Joseph |last1=Hanaway |first2=Richard L. |last2=Cruess |title=McGill Medicine – 1885 to 1936 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |location=Montreal |year=1996 |page=56}}</ref> Among the notable sculptures is that of ''Young Ben Franklin'', which McKenzie produced and Penn sited adjacent to the fieldhouse contiguous to [[Franklin Field]]. The sculpture is titled ''[[Benjamin Franklin]] in 1723'' and was created by McKenzie during the pre-World War I era (1910–1914). 
[[File:Architecture on University of Pennsylvania Campus - Young Ben Franklin Statue - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania - 04.jpg|thumb|Young Ben Franklin (at about age 17) Statue on Penn Campus in front of Franklin Field<ref>{{cite web |title=Benjamin Franklin in 1723 (or The Young Franklin) (1914) |url=https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/benjamin-franklin-in-1723-or-the-young-franklin/ |website=[[Association for Public Art]] |access-date=4 December 2024}}</ref>]]

Other sculptures he produced for Penn include the 1924 sculpture of then Penn provost [[Edgar Fahs Smith]].
[[File:Edgar Fahs Smith - IMG 6621.JPG|thumb|Photo of sculpture of [[Edgar Fahs Smith]]]]

Penn is presently reevaluating all of its public art and has formed a working group led by Penn Design dean [[Frederick Steiner]], who was part of a similar effort at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] that led to the removal of statues of [[Jefferson Davis]] and other Confederate officials, and Penn's Chief Diversity Officer, Joann Mitchell. Penn has begun the process of adding art and removing or relocating art.<ref>{{cite web |work=Penn Today |date=April 5, 2021 |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reassessing-iconography-campus |title=Reassessing iconography on campus |last=Hertzler |first=Lauren |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127001829/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reassessing-iconography-campus |url-status=live }} and {{cite news |work=The Philadelphia Inquirer |title=Penn to remove statue of slavery supporter, forms group to look at campus iconography' |first=Susan |last=Snyder}} and {{cite web |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/campus-iconography-group-report |title=Campus Iconography Group Report |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Almanac |access-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414155242/https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/campus-iconography-group-report |url-status=live }}</ref> Penn removed from campus in 2020 the statue of the Reverend [[George Whitefield]] (who had inspired the 1740 establishment of a trust to establish a charity school, which trust Penn legally assumed in 1749) when research showed Whitefield owned fifty enslaved people and drafted and advocated for the key theological arguments in favor of [[History of slavery in Georgia|slavery in Georgia]] and the [[Slavery in the colonial history of the United States|rest of]] the [[Thirteen Colonies]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/07/penn-whitefield-statue-removal |title=Penn announces plan to remove statue of slave owner George Whitefield from the Quad |work=The Daily Pennsylvanian |last=Weisman |first=Zoey |date=February 7, 2020 |access-date=December 24, 2021 |archive-date=April 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401063907/https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/07/penn-whitefield-statue-removal |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Penn Museum===
{{Main|University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology}}
[[File:Penn_Museum's_Warden_Garden_and_Main_Entrance,_Summer_2012.jpg|thumb|The [[University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]] and Warden Garden]]

Since the founding of Penn Museum in 1887,<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Museum – Penn Museum |url=https://www.penn.museum/about/our-story |website=Penn Museum |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-date=September 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904102304/https://www.penn.museum/about/our-story |url-status=live }}</ref> it has taken part in 400 research projects worldwide.<ref name="About UPM">{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://www.penn.museum/about-us.html |website=Penn Museum |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|access-date=August 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521153922/http://penn.museum/about-us.html|archive-date=May 21, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The museum's first project was an excavation of [[Nippur]], a location in present-day [[Iraq]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Research at the Penn Museum|url=http://www.penn.museum/research.html|work=Penn Museum|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811205610/http://penn.museum/research.html|archive-date=August 11, 2011|access-date=August 20, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Penn Museum is home to the largest authentic sphinx in North America, which is about seven feet high, four feet wide, 13 feet long, 12.9 tons, and made of solid red granite.

The sphinx was discovered in 1912 by the British archeologist, [[Flinders Petrie|Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie]], during an excavation of the ancient Egyptian city of [[Memphis, Egypt]], where the sphinx had guarded a temple to ward off evil. Since Petri's expedition was partially financed by Penn Petrie offered it to Penn, which arranged for it to be moved to museum in 1913. The sphinx was moved in 2019 to a more prominent spot intended to attract visitors.<ref>Crimmins, Peter (June 12, 2019). [https://whyy.org/articles/like-back-to-the-future-penn-museum-floats-its-ancient-sphinx-to-a-new-home/ "Like 'Back to the Future': Penn Museum floats its ancient sphinx to a new home"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410041015/https://whyy.org/articles/like-back-to-the-future-penn-museum-floats-its-ancient-sphinx-to-a-new-home/amp/ |date=April 10, 2021 }}.</ref>

The museum has three gallery floors with artifacts from [[Egypt]], the Middle East, [[Mesoamerica]], Asia, the Mediterranean, Africa and indigenous artifacts of the Americas.<ref name="About UPM"/> Its most famous object is the goat rearing into the branches of a rosette-leafed plant, from the [[Ur III|royal tombs of Ur]].

Penn Museum's excavations and collections foster a strong research base for graduate students in the [[Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World]]. Features of the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] building include a [[rotunda (architecture)|rotunda]] and gardens that include Egyptian [[papyrus]].

===Other Penn museums and galleries===
{{Further|Arthur Ross Gallery|Fisher Fine Arts Library|Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia}}
Penn maintains a website providing a detailed roadmap to small museums and galleries and over one hundred locations across campus where the public can access Penn's over 8,000 artworks acquired over 250 years, which includes paintings, sculptures, photography, works on paper, and decorative arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artcollection.upenn.edu/about/curators-welcome/|title=Curator's Welcome — The Penn Art Collection|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404143017/http://artcollection.upenn.edu/about/curators-welcome/|url-status=live}}</ref> The largest of the art galleries is the [[Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia|Institute of Contemporary Art]], one of the only [[kunsthalle]]s in the country, which showcases various art exhibitions throughout the year. Since 1983, the [[Arthur Ross Gallery]], located at the [[Fisher Fine Arts Library]], has housed Penn's art collection<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.arthurrossgallery.org/about/history/|website=Arthur Ross Gallery|access-date=December 21, 2014|archive-date=December 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221165820/http://www.arthurrossgallery.org/about/history/|url-status=live}}</ref> and is named for its benefactor, philanthropist [[Arthur Ross (philanthropist)|Arthur Ross]].

===Residences===
{{Main|University of Pennsylvania College Houses}}
[[File:Upper Quad Gate in the fall.jpg|thumb|The Upper Quad Gate to the first dormitory primarily built in the 20th Century, which forms the lower part of Memorial Tower and honors veterans of the [[Spanish–American War]]]]
Every College House at the University of Pennsylvania has at least four members of faculty in the roles of House Dean, Faculty Master, and College House Fellows.<ref name="College House PDF">{{cite web|title=College Houses at Penn|url=http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/collegehouses_11-12.pdf|work=College Houses and Academic Services|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|access-date=August 19, 2011|archive-date=October 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001225828/http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/collegehouses_11-12.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Within the College Houses, Penn has nearly 40 themed residential programs for students with shared interests such as world cinema or science and technology. Many of the nearby homes and apartments in the area surrounding the campus are often rented by undergraduate students moving off campus after their first year, as well as by graduate and professional students.
The College Houses include W.E.B. Du Bois, Fisher Hassenfeld, Gregory, Gutmann, Harnwell, Harrison, [[Hill College House]], Kings Court English, Lauder, Riepe, Rodin, Stouffer, and Ware. The first College House was Van Pelt College House, established in the fall of 1971. It was later renamed Gregory House.<ref>{{cite web|title=College Houses & Academic Services: University of Pennsylvania|url=http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/index.asp|website=Collegehouses.upenn.edu|access-date=July 23, 2013|archive-date=August 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812121818/http://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/brochure/index.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> Fisher Hassenfeld, Ware and Riepe together make up one building called "The Quad." The latest College House to be built is Guttman<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/about/gutmann | title=Gutmann College House {{pipe}} College Houses & Academic Services | access-date=June 3, 2023 | archive-date=May 28, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230528211918/https://www.collegehouses.upenn.edu/about/gutmann | url-status=live }}</ref> (formerly named New College House West), which opened in the fall of 2021.<ref>{{cite web|title=Penn to Build New College House Near 40th and Walnut Streets: University of Pennsylvania|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-build-new-college-house-near-40th-and-walnut-streets|access-date=May 15, 2019|archive-date=January 29, 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129215203/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-build-new-college-house-near-40th-and-walnut-streets}}</ref>

Penn students in Junior or Senior year may live in the 45 sororities and fraternities governed by three student-run governing councils, Interfraternity Council,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://upennifc.org/chapters/|title=Chapters|work=University of Pennsylvania IFC |date=August 27, 2020|access-date=June 2, 2021|archive-date=June 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214020/https://upennifc.org/chapters/|url-status=live}}</ref> Intercultural Greek Council, and Panhellenic Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ofsl.vpul.upenn.edu/organizations/|title=Organizations to Join – Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life|access-date=June 2, 2021|archive-date=May 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517163254/https://ofsl.vpul.upenn.edu/organizations/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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University of Pennsylvania- its history, traditions, buildings and memorials- also a brief guide to Philadelphia (1918) (14578281487).jpg|The university's first purpose-built dormitory in the foreground (on right), built in 1765<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/campuses/first-campus/ |title=Penn's First Campus, 1749–1801 |website=University Archives and Records Center |access-date=December 12, 2022 |archive-date=December 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212121739/https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-history/campuses/first-campus/ |url-status=live }}</ref>|alt=
Penn campus 2.jpg|The Upper Quad, originally called The Triangle,<ref>{{cite book |first=George Erazmus |last=Nitzche |title=The University of Pennsylvania: Its History, Traditions, Buildings and Memorials |location=Philadelphia |publisher=International Printing Company |edition=7th |date=1918 |pages=62–74 |url=https://archive.org/details/universityofpenn01nitz/page/65/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=April 5, 2021 |via=The Internet Archive}}</ref> and formerly "The Men's Dormitory," viewed from the Memorial Tower<ref>{{cite web|url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-11-15/record/record-quadrangle-dormitories|title=For the Record: Quadrangle dormitories|website=Penn Today|date=November 15, 2012|access-date=December 19, 2023|archive-date=April 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405123006/https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2012-11-15/record/record-quadrangle-dormitories|url-status=live}}</ref>|alt=
Woodland Walk.jpg|Woodland Walk pathway between [[University of Pennsylvania College Houses|Hill College House]] and Lauder College House|alt=
Hill College House - IMG 6582.JPG|[[Hill College House]], a dormitory designed in 1958 to house female students, was designed by [[Eero Saarinen]]|alt=
Quadrangle Building at the University of Pennsylvania.jpg|"The Quad," formerly known as the Men's Dormitory, in 2014|alt=
George W. Childs Drexel Mansion (now Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity) - University of Pennsylvania - IMG 6638.jpg|The [[Alpha Tau Omega]] fraternity house, built by George W. Childs Drexel as one of two mansions for his daughters|alt=
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