When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

Kate Quinn, the Mütter Museum’s often-embattled executive director, is no longer working at the city’s iconic medical history institution. A memo to staff sent out late Monday afternoon stated that ...

Marketing Medicine’ is a jewelbox array of period literature, vintage advertising, arrant chicanery, and brown bottles filled ...

Philadelphia Museum Human Remains Visitors look at displays of human remains at the Mütter Museum on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau ...

After two years of research and community input, the Mütter Museum is updating its approach to managing its human remains collection. The museum says it will continue to exhibit human remains in a way ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia's Mutter Museum announced a new approach to collecting and displaying human remains. Approximately 6,500 human remains are housed within the Center City museum.

PHILADELPHIA — 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 ...