“One of the things to me that’s so great about doing a loan to a museum like the Musical Instrument Museum is that it gives a chance for our objects to shine in a new way.”—Katherine Blanchard, Penn Museum, Philadelphia — In 1927, the famous lyres of Ur, a collection of fragments from the world’s oldest stringed musical instruments, were discovered in royal graves in the ruins of Ur, an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia. See these fragments alongside loans from other world-cla