PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A medical museum in Philadelphia has redrawn its policies on the collection and display of human remains, ...

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

A contentious ethical review ushered in new leaders who say morbid curiosity warrants deeper context and public trust — not ...

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 ...

Mutter Museum declined to interview, instead they issued a statement explaining how they discovered the babies' skulls were in their possession. But first, a little more about the museum's collection.

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… ...

A medical museum that's home to jars of stillborn fetuses and skulls from the 1800s is drawing in thousands of visitors annually - despite ethical concerns about a "power-imbalance." The Mutter ...

The Mutter's main exhibition hall has plenty of both — like the 139 human skulls on the wall. They're meant to show skeletal diversity among Europeans. Each has an identifying tag.