One night recently, after the museum closed, radiographers, forensics experts and technicians attempted to pry the secrets from the so-called “Soap Lady” using high-tech portable X-ray equipment.

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.

News US News Museums Inside the human remains museum with preserved bodies and woman turned into soap More than 100,000 curious visitors each year flock to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, which ...

The Mütter Museum, home to a collection of human skulls, The Soap Lady, pieces of Albert Einstein's brain and more than 1,000 wet specimens, has announced when it will host its first spring 2019 ...

With about 25%2C000 objects%2C the cabinet-style museum attracted 152%2C000 visitors in 2014. Not surprisingly%2C after visiting the museum%2C many patrons are interested in donating medical items.

The museum was founded in 1858, when Thomas Dent Mutter, retired Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College, presented his personal collection of unique anatomic and pathological materials ...

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.

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… ...

Travel: Things get weird at the Mutter MuseumWith about 25,000 objects, the 19th-century cabinet-style museum attracted 152,000 visitors in 2014, an increase of about 20,000 people from 20 years ...