A medical museum in Philadelphia has redrawn its policies on the collection and display of human remains, limiting its acceptance of additional specimens and working to follow "evolving modern medical ...

“As someone who has been considering a career in public history and the museum field, I was only aware of ethical discourses in the museum world on a surface level,” said Karen Li, BA history ’22.

A reckoning over the future of the Mütter Museum has put Philadelphia's unique showcase of medical oddities at a crossroads. And in a fierce battle over the ethics of displaying human remains, the ...

A 40-pound colon, a presidential tumor and a slice of Einstein's brain; those are just a few of the macabre medical curiosities you can see at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum. The Mütter opened in 1858 ...

The Mütter Museum reopens to the public Saturday, after months of coronavirus shutdowns had closed the space to in-person visitors. Visitors will now need to comply with new health and safety ...

PHILADELPHIA — A medical museum in Philadelphia has redrawn its policies on the collection and display of human remains, limiting its acceptance of additional specimens and working to follow “evolving ...

OTTAWA — After more than 100 years, an American medical museum has returned the partial human remains of 12 Canadian soldiers from the First World War.

After a controversial decision to rethink its collection of medical pathologies, the Mütter will launch a 2-year public discussion about human remains. Carol Orzel had FOP, a rare disorder in which ...

The numbers are staggering: 12,000 deaths in just six weeks. Before the flu epidemic of 1918 was done with Philadelphia, more than 20,000 people would die. “To this day, nobody knows the precise death ...

Human remains are at the center of attention at one Philadelphia museum. The Mütter Museum, part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, announced the launch of a new initiative called ...

The Mütter Museum, a temple to the many medical abnormalities that can befall a human being, is preparing for a growth spurt. Museum officials announced on Wednesday a new campaign to raise $25 ...