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 ...

Monge: Hopefully nobody knows what we have! What they have are 30 skulls that make up part of the 139-skull Hyrtl collection, the centerpiece of the Mutter museum. Several days earlier, Anna Dhody ...

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

The Mutter Museum's Hyrtl Skull Collection is up for adoption until Dec. 31, 2013. Looking for the perfect holiday gift for a slightly morbid loved one? Adopt a skull for them. The Mütter Museum ...

The Mutter Museum began 155 years ago and includes the Hyrtl Skull Collection of 139 skulls, most identified with an individual’s name, place and manner of death. | Photo courtesy of the Mutter ...

The Mütter Museum acquired this collection of 139 human skulls from Viennese anatomist Joseph Hyrtl (1810-1894) in 1874.

The packed two-story museum is also home to Hyrtl Skull Collection, which contains 139 distinctly different human skulls, labeled with their original owner's name, method and time of death, as ...

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 ...

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 Hyrtl Skull Collection is photographed in the Mutter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 11, 2009 in this handout image released to Reuters ...