ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Packard Humanities Institute

The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) is like a big beautiful library where people keep books, papers, documents, art, films, and other things that help us learn about history, culture, and what people were thinking and feeling a long time ago.

Imagine you want to know about what the ancient Greeks did or how people used to travel a hundred years ago. Well, you would need to find textbooks, journal articles, maps, photographs or even films that show or talk about those things.

The PHI has millions of these things stored in its collections, and they keep adding new things all the time. So, if you ever get curious about anything, you can just go to the PHI website, and they will have something for you to look at or read.

The PHI is like a superhero that helps to save and protect all these amazing things, so you and other people can learn and appreciate how humans have changed over time. They work hard to make sure all this cool stuff stays safe and available for people to study and learn from all over the world.