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

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

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

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 ...

The building was demolished in recent years after a lengthy preservation battle. Eight homes are expected to be built where it once sat.