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Medical museum in Philadelphia overhauls policies on human remains to meet modern ethical standards
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A medical museum in Philadelphia has redrawn its policies on the collection and display of human remains, ...
The new policy comes after two years of controversy involving public backlash, staff departures and high-level leadership changes.
Baronet bought his sign in 2014. "I encountered Willie when I was 38 at the corner of 10th and Market. I was experiencing homelessness as a result of my drug addiction," he recalled.
But first, a little more about the museum's collection. Mutter Museum in Philadelphia uses the tagline, "disturbingly informative," to allude to the various exhibits of human remains.
MISCHIEF at the Mutter This will be the second year the Mutter Museum will host a night full of mischief in celebration of Halloween. Tickets to the event include an open bar with beer, wine ...
Now's your chance! Each human skull on the walls of the Mutter Museum in Center City has its own story. Like Hasar, who died at 21 of typhus. Or a shoemaker, who died at 15 of smallpox.
The Mutter Museum, a 19th-century repository of medical oddments and arcana at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, attracts as many as 160,000 visitors a year. Among the anatomical and patho… ...
The Mutter Museum has announced that a new product is stocked in its souvenir shop. Those obsessed with the museum's collection of medical oddities can now sport a sweatshirt detailing the Mutter ...
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 ...
Anna Dhody, the museum's curator, is also a forensic scientist — she solves criminal mysteries based on bodies or bones. The Mutter's main exhibition hall has plenty of both — like the 139 ...
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