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 ...

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 ...

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

A new exhibit at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia explores homelessness as public health issue. 'Unhoused: Personal Stories and Public Health' features signs collected by Willie Baronet and ...

Executive Director Kate Quinn, who started leading the museum about a year ago, attended, but did not speak. Moderators made it clear this meeting is just for people to air their grievances, so ...