Museum Information System at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

"Over the last century, expeditions sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (UPM) have produced rich archaeological and ethnographic collections consisting of artifacts, archival field records, and photographs. Founded in 1887 and born of its field research, the Museum has sponsored more than 350 archaeological and ethnographic expeditions on every inhabited continent. There is field documentation in the Archives for a major portion of the approximately 700,000 artifacts in the collections. The UPM archives include over 2,000 linear feet of textual records, including notes, journals, drawings, maps, photographs, correspondence, and over 300,000 photographic objects, which provide the scientific context for understanding and interpreting the artifacts. Museum Information System (MIS) is a pilot effort of the UPM, funded through a Mellon planning project, to present our Archives to an international audience of researchers via the internet."