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.

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

Kate Quinn, executive director of the Mutter Museum, at the facility in Philadelphia on Aug. 10.

Kate Quinn, the former executive director at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. (Jessica Griffin, TNS, file) TNS ...

The museum will also research its own collection to deepen its institutional knowledge of where and how its artifacts were acquired. “It’s important — now more than ever — that the Mütter Museum ...

The Mütter Museum launches a 2-year public engagement project to help decide the future of its human remains collection.

Kate Quinn spent 14 years as director of exhibitions and special programs at the Penn Museum.

The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia looks like any other respectable establishment in the US: a trim brick building with an American flag outside. But behind its doors lies a remarkable medical ...

Staff photo/PhillyVoice Mira Irons, president and CEO of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which owns the Mütter Museum, at 19 S. 22nd St., resigned Wednesday to take a new job. The ...