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

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.

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

More than 100,000 curious visitors each year flock to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, which dates back to 1849. It was originally a small collection of medical teaching aids, including human ...

Participants listen to presenter Meredith Sellers during a workshop presented by the Mutter Museum Tuesday, July 15, 2025, at the Whitehall Township Library. Participants worked off of four images ...

The Mutter (the “u” has an umlaut; you say it, “Myoo-ter”) displays medical anomalies and artifacts from the collection of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- Philadelphia's Mutter Museum was already full of medical oddities and human anatomy, including pieces of Einstein's brain. Thursday the collection expanded to include a new ...

A Philadelphia collection of skulls may give clues to human variation and evolution. Under cover of darkness, a rare collection of thirty skulls were taken from their shelves at Philadelphia’s Mutter ...

The Mütter Museum, with its collection of skulls, odd things in jars and medical instruments, probably isn't a place that comes to mind when thinking "festive" or "merry." This year, that changes.