For years, a man’s giant intestine was anonymously on display at a US medical museum in Philadelphia, identified only by his initials JW.Today, the ...

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 ...

For years, a man's giant intestine was anonymously on display at a US medical museum in Philadelphia, identified only by his initials JW.  Today, the donor display for Joseph Williams depicts not only ...

Glow like a ball of radium at a party celebrating the woman who discovered it. The Mütter Museum is gearing up to host its first Radiant Ball inspired by Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A new exhibit hopes to bring empathy to those who are unhoused here in Philadelphia and around the world. The very unique collection features photographs full of emotion and ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More than 100 years after Dracula's creator was laid to rest, the Mütter Museum has a coffin-shaped case dedicated to vampirism, showcasing what Victorians would have been ...

“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.

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia is part of the College of Physicians, a nonprofit organization dating to 1787. Constance Mensh for the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia The ...

At the Mütter Museum, that includes skulls, limbs and gallstones. The medical museum has been shining a light on the inner workings of mankind for 160 years. Glass cases display human skeletons and ...

(Rebroadcast from Nov. 5, 2002.) Worden was director of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia. She died on Aug. 2 at the age of 57, from a brief illness. She turned the little-known medical museum into a ...

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which owns the Mutter Museum, announced this week it is restricting the taking of photos and videos of human remains, allowing it only with the museum’s ...