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 ‒ For years, the Mütter Museum leaned into its appeal as a repository of medical curiosities: dozens of human skulls, fetal specimens and skeletons of people with varying pathologies, for ...

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By: On the back wall of the Thompson Gallery inside the Mütter Museum, a collection of cardboard signs are hung like a map. The signs, copy written by unhoused individuals, vary in size and messaging.

Following more than two years of controversy, the Mütter Museum adopted a new policy regarding the human remains in its collection, the organization announced this week. Human remains will still be ...

The skeletons of Harry Eastlack (left) and Carol Orzel on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Robert Pendarvis gave his heart to Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum.

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 ...