The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia is well-known for its bizarre collection of medical oddities and specimens. But few people know about the pioneering surgeon behind it. Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter was a ...

If not, a visit to SF Camerawork's exhibition of "Mutter Museum Photographs" may offer a cure, if not a painless one. The gray area called normalcy will feel like a refuge to anyone who gazes from ...

Not all museums in Philadelphia have beautiful paintings or ancient sculptures. In one particular gallery, the collections contain slices of a human brain, conjoined twins in a jar, and a nine-foot ...

For more than 150 years the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia has housed a collection of medical and anatomical oddities, such as the complete skeleton of a man who suffered ...

In her new book, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz captures Mütter’s journey from young, sickly orphan to beloved surgeon and teacher. A skull decorates the wall, and gruesome-looking antique surgical ...

The Mutter Museum, a 19th-century repository of medical oddments and arcana at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, attracts as many as 160,000 visitors a year. Among the anatomical and ...

Fans will soon get to see more of what they love about the Mutter Museum, known around the world for its collection of organs preserved in jars, deformed skeletons and lifelike wax casts of astounding ...

She's put together a book of photographs of and from the museum's collection of human oddities and outdated medical models. The Mutter Museum is in Philadelphia, Pa., and is one of the last medical ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of plastic surgery, Dr. Thomas D. Mütter specialized in operations to ...

Worden has compiled a book of photographs of the museum's collection of human oddities and outdated medical models. The Mutter Museum is in Philadelphia, Pa. It is one of the last medical museums from ...

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