The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia holds a collection of more than 40,000 medically significant objects and specimens. The ...

Part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Mütter Museum says it investigated the ethics of displaying donated ...

After a few contentious years, the museum is adopting a more holistic approach instead of focusing only on specimens and the medical condition they represent.

A contentious ethical review ushered in new leaders who say morbid curiosity warrants deeper context and public trust — not ...

The new policy comes after two years of controversy involving public backlash, staff departures and high-level leadership changes.

Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum is changing the way it handles human remains. There are now clear guidelines for exhibitions, ...

PHILADELPHIA -- On a Friday last November, staff at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia were in the midst of conducting an audit of the medical history museum’s collection of some 6,600 human ...

Yes, sure, you can eat a cheesesteak and see the Liberty Bell, but a visit to the City of Brotherly Love has so much more to ...

Contents Preface -- Pathological treasures of the Mütter Museum -- Plates -- Appendix Summary Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the ...

Object Details Author Wade, Ella N (Ella Nora) 1892-1980 Subject Mütter Museum Notes Reprinted from the Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 4th ser., vol. 15, nos.

Philadelphia's Mutter Museum announced a new approach to one of its most popular and controversial exhibits on Tuesday.

The exhibit was temporarily closed to the public in May, to allow staff to identify human remains and funerary objects ...