In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, associate curator in the Egyptian Section at Penn Museum, explores the history of funerary spells in ancient Egypt. The essay features a fragment of a decorated mummy bandage in the Glencairn collection, inscribed with spells from the Book of the Dead.

In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Jack Hinton, Henry P. McIlhenny Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, relates the remarkable story of Glencairn’s three Raphael tapestries, their creation, and significance.

Iñigo Salto Santamaría is a doctoral candidate in art history at the Technical University of Berlin. In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, he positions Glencairn and its collections within the context of European and American museums of medieval art in the 1930s—the decade when Glencairn was completed.

For 86 years, the Bryn Athyn community has been attending and participating in the Glencairn Christmas Sing. In this issue of Glencairn Museum News we explore the beginning and early years of this unique community tradition.

This issue of Glencairn Museum News introduces Follow the Star: A 2022 Advent Calendar. The calendar is available both on the Museum’s website and in the form of daily posts on our Facebook and Instagram pages.

Christmas in the Castle, an immersive exhibition featuring almost 50 Nativities from the Glencairn Museum collection, runs from November 11, 2022 through February 5, 2023 at the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center in New Haven, Connecticut.

In this issue of Glencairn Museum News, Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, associate curator in the Egyptian Section at the Penn Museum, explains the texts and decoration carved on the limestone “false door” stela of a New Kingdom official named Maienhekau.

Frank Snyder (1908–1995) was employed by Raymond Pitcairn as a painter and muralist from 1937 to 1940, and he continued working for him on freelance projects into the early 1950s. This article will explore his artistry at Glencairn, which has survived in a variety of media.

In this issue of Glencairn Museum News, we interview Archivist Greg Jackson, who is responsible for the research, cataloging, and accessibility of the historic photographs preserved in the Bryn Athyn Historic District Archives.

In this essay for Glencairn Museum News, Dr. Elif Gokcigdem explores the meaning of an object in the Glencairn Museum collection from the city of Kashan in 14th-century Iran: a star-shaped tile depicting the Simurgh, a mythical bird.