Reviewers on TripAdvisor call it “cool” and “disturbing.” Dinglefielder remarks it as “fascinating nightmare.” Journalist Michael Turtle writes, “But even with the warm rays streaming in through the ...

After a two-year ethical review and a leadership shakeup in April, the Mütter Museum has committed to continuing its display of human remains with a new focus on giving visitors deeper context into ...

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia gets a lot of different reactions from a lot of different people. For some, it’s awe at all the different ways the human body can develop, from the death plaster of ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Mütter Museum has announced a new policy for how it will handle human remains in ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Anatomy museums contain some of the most compelling and challenging displays of the human body. This innovative book focusing on ...

Opened in 2012, the Museum of Human Body at Chulalongkorn University features 131 donated specimens and organs shipped from Japan. The exhibits, preserved via plastination-where bodily fluids and fats ...