The 1925 silent film "The Phantom of the Opera" will be screened at the Mutter Museum on Tuesday, April 11. Not-So-Silent Cinema will perform the score for the horror classic. The movie will begin at ...

Missed the pop-up beer garden at the Mutter Museum in May? Well, the museum of medical oddities has announced an end-of-summer beer garden date. The inspiration to bring back a one-time-only event?

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 ...

A article about the specimen's origins prompted calls for its return to Australia. The skull that had been on display at the Mutter Museum of an Australian soldier who was killed in World War I will ...

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 ...

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 ...

With about 25%2C000 objects%2C the cabinet-style museum attracted 152%2C000 visitors in 2014. Not surprisingly%2C after visiting the museum%2C many patrons are interested in donating medical items.

A new film about the Mutter Museum will premiere Thursday night. It’s a documentary of a very unusual nature. The story of the museum of medical oddities in Center City is being told by the Quay ...

A 40-pound colon, a presidential tumor and a slice of Einstein's brain; those are just a few of the macabre medical curiosities you can see at Philadelphia's Mütter Museum. The Mütter opened in 1858 ...

“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 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 — ...

I had a ball getting drunk at the American Museum of Natural History. But my most recent drunken outing was much less fun than that. I cannot stress enough that having a series of existential crises ...