Winter Wellness Walks take place at the Morris Arboretum every Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m. from November until March. Wellness Walks encourage visitors to step outside and get some exercise by walking the Arboretum’s paved paths, in a beautiful, safe environment. Guides point out specimen trees and other features during the brisk, two mile journey. Walkers meet at the Visitor’s Center.

Morris Arboretum’s Holiday Garden Railway is back for its 9th annual season. The display features a quarter mile of track, with 15 different rail lines for the model trains, which run alongside replicas of Philadelphia-area landmarks made of natural materials. The display runs from November 27 through January 3.

This exhibit explores the making of Franklin Court through a selection of original sketches, models and period photographs.

Beauty Has No Age: A Kazakh Woman, one of the photographs by Laura Mack, now on display at the Burrison Gallery.

Righteous Dopefiend: An Anthropological Installation on Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in Urban America, December 3-31 at the Slought Foundation and December 5 through May 2010 at the Penn Museum. © Jeff Schonberg 2009

Lenape Meesing Candle holder made of metal and paint. Each year, the Lenape of Pennsylvania honor Meesing, the protector of the woodlands, with a fall Meesing ceremony. At the ceremony, a member of the Medicine Society, a group of men responsible for organizing and performing the Meesing ceremony, represents Meesing as a dancer. The Meesing dancer prepares for his task during the year preceding the ceremony by meditating on Meesing and making objects with Meesing’s image, which are given to the Medicine Society.  

A Lenape fan made of beads, deerskin and feathers rests in the hands of Shelley DePaul, director of the Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania and co-curator of Penn Museum’s new exhibition, Fulfilling a Prophecy: the Past and Present of the Lenape in Pennsylvania.

Photos: Lauren Hansen-Flaschen.

Gold bull amulet (Height: 1.5 cm; Width: 1.5 cm) originally part of a necklace of gold. The bearded bull, considered divine in early Mesopotamia, is made of a thin sheet of gold wrapped over a bitumen core. Found loose in the soil at the Royal Cemetery, ca 2550 BCE.

A world-renowned collection of ancient Maya painted pottery, excavated by the Penn Museum nearly a century ago and reinterpreted in light of recent research in the field, provides the centerpiece for Painted Metaphors: Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya.

Pictured is a Mayan Incense Burner from the exhibit.

Watercolor reconstruction by Piet de Jong of a group of figures from the Painted House, ca. 500 BCE, excavated at Gordion, Turkey.

Celebrate the yuletide traditions of the Emerald Isle with members of Téada, one of today’s leading Irish music ensembles, plus Irish singer and accordionist Séamus Begley and other special guest musicians and dancers. Featuring festive fiddles, traditional Irish dancing and multimedia projections with rich historical narratives, this family-friendly show takes the spirit of Christmas on a distinctively Irish journey!

Slought Foundation’s Political Speech is Suprematism, an architectural exhibition about the changing history of the Meštrovic pavilion in Zagreb, Croatia, and the cultural practices that it has inspired. September 19-November 14.

Sculptures from nine artists including Lanny Bergner, Fritz Dietel and Nancy Graves; first floor, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine.