A medical museum in Philadelphia has redrawn its policies on the collection and display of human remains, limiting its ...

Philadelphia's Mutter Museum announced a new approach to one of its most popular and controversial exhibits on Tuesday.

Contents Preface -- Pathological treasures of the Mütter Museum -- Plates -- Appendix Summary Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the ...

The exhibit was temporarily closed to the public in May to identify objects subject to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

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 … ...

Hidden in the long-forgotten personal archives of a 20th-century anatomist was a pair of images depicting an extinct species of bandicoot with an unusual butterfly pattern and aggressive streak.

Kate Quinn, former executive director of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, on May 9, 2023. (Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS) ...

Using advanced micro-CT scanning on museum specimens, researchers found osteoderms in 29 Australo-Papuan monitor lizard species, significantly expanding known cases.

If animal entrails make you queasy, you can learn about plant specimens — and even prepare your own flower specimen on pH-neutral paper — in the indoor foyer area of the museum.

Museum specimens held in natural history collections around the world represent a wealth of underutilized genetic information due to the poor state of preservation of the DNA, which often makes it ...