Following more than two years of controversy, the Mütter Museum adopted a new policy regarding the human remains in its ...

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia holds a collection of more than 40,000 medically significant objects and specimens. The ...

Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum is changing the way it handles human remains. There are now clear guidelines for exhibitions, ...

After two years of research and community input, the Mütter Museum is updating its approach to managing its human remains ...

The new policy comes after two years of controversy involving public backlash, staff departures and high-level leadership changes.

A contentious ethical review ushered in new leaders who say morbid curiosity warrants deeper context and public trust — not ...

Quinn, who became director in September 2022, sparked controversy earlier this year with her decision to take down online educational videos that featured human remains from the collection, and ...

Under Quinn, that has included the Pew-funded project Postmortem: Mütter Museum, which hosted town-hall meetings to get public input. The final audit of that process is due later this year.

The Philadelphia Police Department has launched an investigation after the Mütter Museum received an unusual package Tuesday morning. Police said around 11:36 a.m. Tuesday, museum staff reporting ...

An anonymous package sent to the Mütter Museum and opened by staff on Tuesday morning contained a pair of glass jars with two preserved fetuses, Philadelphia police and museum officials said ...

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 ...

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia has established itself in the craft of curating various oddities. This is by no means surprising given that the museum’s founder, Dr. Thomas Mütter, was ...