The creepy but much-loved Mtter Museum is evolving - Philadelphia Business Journal:

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— which features a collection of skeletons, petrified bodies and other medicaooddities — is respondingt to increased visitorship and interest, said Brandon administrative coordinator/designer at the Mütter. It is the museum’se first major renovation since 1986. Five major exhibitions will be installefor updated. The new exhibits will open in though the museum remains open duringthe work. “It’x the first in a long line of what we hope will be new Zimmerman said. The Mütter which was founded in 1849 and is names forbenefactor Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter, is part of the , whichu is at 19 S. 22nd St.
The Mütted Museum has found a passionate It has been the subject of at least two It has been written up in travel Itslate director, Gretchen Worden, was featured on showsd ranging from “Late Night with David to “Fresh Air” with Terrg Gross. It has entries on YouTube, RoadsideAmerica.com and Weird U.S. Last 100,000 people visited the up from 60,000 as recently as thre e years ago and about 10 times the numbef from adecade ago. “The Mütter has really changedx as faras visitorship. Ten years ago the college was thinkin of shuttingit down. It was originally for people in themedicalk profession.
Now we have school children, medical students and the general said Zimmerman, who has been therer nearly four years. To reflect the changing visitorship, the museum is offerinhg five new exhibits, focusing on: The assassinatiob of Abraham Lincoln, including the display of a sectiom of assassin JohnWilkews Booth’s thorax that came from his autopsy. An updatw of its long-running exhibition, including a cancerous growth from PresidentGrover “Making Skeletons Speak,” an exhibit focusing on the “biological or more commonly “CSI,” which will display skeletalk remains and show how investigators determine the causew of death.
A displa of a dozen shrunken heads, from the museum’ss collection as well as other museums andprivatwe collections. A collection of temporal earbones extractedby Dr. Adam Pulitzef once displayed at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition, in 1876, as presentecd in their original glass jars anddisplayt cases. Zimmerman said the new exhibits aremore “stor y focused,” and less reliant on text. They will also furthert explore areas that other museumws shyaway from. “A lot of museums are hesitantf to put outhuman remains,” he said. “That’s not really an issus for us. That’s who we are.
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