The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia holds a collection of more than 40,000 medically significant objects and specimens. The ...

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

Following more than two years of controversy, the Mütter Museum adopted a new policy regarding the human remains in its ...

After two years of research and community input, the Mütter Museum is updating its approach to managing its human remains ...

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

The new policy comes after two years of controversy involving public backlash, staff departures and high-level leadership changes.

Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum is changing the way it handles human remains. There are now clear guidelines for exhibitions, ...

PHILADELPHIA -- On a Friday last November, staff at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia were in the midst of conducting an audit of the medical history museum’s collection of some 6,600 human ...

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 ...

Object Details Author Wade, Ella N (Ella Nora) 1892-1980 Subject Mütter Museum Notes Reprinted from the Transactions & Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 4th ser., vol. 15, nos.

The exhibit was temporarily closed to the public in May, to allow staff to identify human remains and funerary objects ...