The Mutter Museum is open Monday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm. Sunday, 12 noon to 4 pm. General admission is $8 and children under six are admitted free. Phone: 215-563-3737.

An iron lung display at the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, Aug. 10, 2023. The Mutter, a beloved 19th-century collection of medical curiosities and human remains, wants to adopt a more ...

DALLAS — The family of Paul Alexander, the longest living iron lung patient in history, is hoping the machine that helped Paul can be salvaged for another purpose. Alexander, 78, died last week ...

The museum has about 1,000 medical textbooks from the 1800s and early 1900s, as well as 800 reference books in medical history. A California State Journal of Medicine from 1910 is notable for its ...

After removing some works Wohlreich estimates there will be thousands of linear feet of shelving that can be eliminated, enough space to double the size of the museum. About 90% of the museum’s ...

The Mutter Museum is located at 19 South 22nd Street in Philadelphia. The museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Sunday. For more information, call 215-560-8564 or visit muttermuseum.org.