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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.
Pop Medicine > Pop Medicine The Sanitization of the Mutter Museum — Medical exhibits caught in the crosshairs of reparation by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA June 28, 2023 • 4 min read ...
The internationally renowned medical museum houses items such as one of the only two segments of Einstein's brain in existence; the Mutter American Giant, who at 7-foot-6 is the tallest skeletal ...
The Mutter Museum -- Philadelphia's museum of macabre medical oddities and artifacts -- will unveil new gallery space devoted to its former director. The Gretchen Worden Gallery will open Sept. 30 ...
The Mutter Museum was established in 1849 by Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter as a teaching tool for students of medicine before the modern marvels of X-rays and antibiotics. Worden arrived as a curatorial ...
Almost up to the moment of his death in 1859, as the American Civil War began to break out and hundreds of thousands of young men would be mangled and maimed beyond belief, Dr. Mutter lived by a ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A Pulitzer prize-winning guest of honor helped The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and The Mütter Museum open their newest exhibit. The new display called "Broken ...
Courtesy of College of Physicians of Philadelphia By Ryan Mulligan – Reporter, Philadelphia Business Journal Sep 7, 2022 Updated Sep 8, 2022 11:53am EDT Preview this article 1 min ...
For the past few years the Mütter Museum has been eagerly opening itself to artistic interpretation. Philadelphia’s archive of morbid artifacts has been the subject of an eccentric documentary film by ...