This weekend, the Penn Museum will show off the initial phase of its planned renovations, the first real overhaul in the 120-year history of its Wilson Eyre-designed building. Although the street-level doorway on 33rd Street won’t be done for several months, New York’s Gluckman Tang Architects have reconstructed the South Street entrance to offer visitors a more gracious welcome into its sprawling, arts-and-crafts style building. You still must climb a short staircase, but the new lobby is brighter and more streamlined, and it puts you face-to-face with the museum’s prized possession: a 13-ton Egyptian sphinx, the largest of the stone beasts owned by an American museum...

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