The skull that had been on display at the Mutter Museum of an Australian soldier who was killed in World War I will be returned to his nation’s military, the museum announced Tuesday. The museum ...

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

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 has announced a full schedule of October events, leading up to Halloween. There are events with skulls, events with speakeasy-style music, events with open bars and events with ...

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 ...

So Mutter curator Anna Dhody, trained as a forensic anthropologist, fetched an old human skull, a mid-19th century “Tenon” saw, and shot an instructional video.

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.

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 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… ...

Australian politician Lynda Voltz is pushing for the Mutter Museum to return the skull of an unknown Australian soldier shot and killed in World War I, and the museum said Friday, Sept. 29, 2017 ...

PHILADELPHIA >> A Philadelphia medical museum says the skull of an Australian soldier who was shot in World War I and died days later will be returned to the Australian Army.The Mutter Museum says ...