The project to collect feedback started two years ago, with a national controversy and high-profile leadership changes along the way.

Instead of a traditional lecture, the event will be structured as a hands-on workshop. Attendees will use items from the museum’s collection, including wax medical models and historical instruments, ...

At Philadelphia’s famously eerie Mütter Museum, the visitors have spoken - nearly 5,000 times - and the museum says it is listening. Handwritten comment cards, scrawled by guests in the galleries and ...

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 ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia police have launched an investigation after they said a package containing two preserved fetuses was delivered to the Mütter Museum Tuesday morning. Police said at ...

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 ...

As we celebrate Women's History Month, the Mutter Museum has an exhibition on motherhood and the history and future of maternity care. The exhibition is called Designing Motherhood: Things That Make ...

Police in Philadelphia are investigating after a package containing two preserved fetuses in a jar was sent to the city’s Mütter Museum. The package arrived late Tuesday morning and staff immediately ...

Mount Moriah Cemetery thefts leave well-known Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, area medical museum grappling with ethical ...

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 ...

“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.