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

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.

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.