“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.

Weekend visitors to the Mütter Museum can now head upstairs to peruse rare artwork and books in a historic library that was formerly closed to the public. MORE: Historical Society set out to make ...

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 Mütter Museum is hosting a series of open houses as part of its effort to gather public input about the direction it should take in the face of a heated ethical debate about the thousands of human ...

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 ...

Police in Philadelphia are investigating after an unexpected package was delivered to the Mutter Museum Tuesday morning. According to law enforcement officials, at approximately 11:26 a.m., museum ...

Police in Philadelphia are investigating after an unexpected package was delivered to the Mutter Museum Tuesday morning. According to law enforcement officials, at approximately 11:26 a.m., museum ...

Leah den Bok speaks about her portraits of people experiencing homelessness, part of an exhibit at the Thompson Gallery of the Mütter Museum,''Unhoused: Personal Stories and Public Health.'' (Emma Lee ...

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 ...

W.C. Fields and Gwyneth Paltrow have, I would guess, rarely shared the same imaginative space before the mounting of an exhibition at the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, ...

The notion of "beauty" can mean many different things to artists. For the Brothers Quay — identical-twin filmmakers — it often means dimly lit black and white images of animated dolls, screws, cogs — ...