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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Former Mütter Museum forensic anthropologist launches research institute Longtime Mütter Museum forensic anthropologist Anna Dhody will continue her work analyzing historic samples, but now in a ...