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What’s That?
What’s That: Penny the Pig
What’s That: Penny the Pig
Penny the Pig makes occasional appearances around Penn’s campus. Who is she?
What’s That? The Rittenhouse Orrery
What’s That? The Rittenhouse Orrery
The Rittenhouse Orrery is a nearly intact 18th-century mechanical model of the solar system, demonstrating the motions of the planets and their satellites around the sun, built by astronomer David Rittenhouse.
What’s That? The grotesques on the Evans Building
What’s That? The grotesques on the Evans Building
The kooky figures that perch above passersby along 40th Street.
What’s That? The Paleontologist’s Cottage
What’s That? The Paleontologist’s Cottage
The Paleontologist’s Cottage at the Morris Arboretum & Gardens celebrates plants with ties to the age of dinosaurs.
What’s That? The Sweeten Alumni House carillon
What’s That? The Sweeten Alumni House carillon
The Sweeten Alumni House carillon is a computerized music system that chimes and plays songs for passersby along Locust Walk.
What’s That? Sun shades at the Vagelos Lab
What’s That? Sun shades at the Vagelos Lab
The shades account for solar geometry to make for an eye-catching view from the east and west—all while reducing energy usage.
What’s That? ‘The Goat’ at Penn Carey Law.
What’s That? ‘The Goat’ at Penn Carey Law.
The bronze sculpture called “Hsieh-Chai” has been Penn Carey Law’s mascot-in-chief since its dedication in 1962.
What’s That? Fox-Fels Hall
What’s That? Fox-Fels Hall
‘The mansion’ is home to the Fels Institute of Government, Penn's graduate school for public policy and public management.
What’s That? Fisher Fine Arts Library windows
What’s That? Fisher Fine Arts Library windows
Shakespeare scholar and Penn lecturer Horace Howard Furness selected aphorisms for windows in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, a building his brother designed.
What’s That? Locust Walk Compass
What’s That? Locust Walk Compass
The granite compass embedded in Locust Walk has become the source of a campus legend.