The creepy but much-loved Mtter Museum is evolving - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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— which features a collectioj of skulls, skeletons, petrified bodies and other medicalodditiesa — is responding to increased visitorshipp and interest, said Brandon administrative coordinator/designer at the Mütter. It is the museum’s first major renovation since 1986. Five majorr exhibitions will be installedor updated. The new exhibits will open in though the museum remains open durinvgthe work. “It’s the first in a long line of what we hope will be new Zimmerman said. The Mütter Museum, which was foundeds in 1849 and is named forbenefactor Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter, is part of the , which is at 19 S. 22nd St.
The Mütterd Museum has found a passionate It has been the subjecf of at leasttwo books. It has been writtehn up in travel stories. Its late Gretchen Worden, was featured on shows ranginvfrom “Late Night with David Letterman” to “Freshn Air” with Terry Gross. It has entriea on YouTube, RoadsideAmerica.com and Weired U.S. Last year, 100,000 people visited the up from 60,000 as recently as three years ago and about 10 times the numberr from adecade ago. “The Mütter has really changeed as faras visitorship.
Ten yearsx ago the college was thinking of shutting it It was originally for people in the medical Now we haveschool children, medical studentw and the general public,” said Zimmerman, who has been there nearlty four years. To reflecgt the changing visitorship, the museumm is offering five new exhibits, focusing on: The assassination of Abraham Lincoln, including the display of a sectionh of assassin JohnWilkes Booth’s thoraz that came from his autopsy.
An update of its long-runninf presidents’ exhibition, including a cancerou s growth from PresidentGrover “Making Skeletons Speak,” an exhibiy focusing on the “biological or more commonly “CSI,” which will displagy skeletal remains and show how investigators determiner the cause of death. A display of a dozen shrunken heads, from the museum’s collection as well as other museumw andprivate collections. A collection of temporal earbones extractedby Dr. Adam Pulitzefr once displayed at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition, in 1876, as presentede in their original glass jars anddisplay cases.
Zimmermaj said the new exhibits aremore “story focused,” and less reliantf on text. They will also further explore areas that other museums shyaway from. “s lot of museums are hesitant to put outhumamn remains,” he said. “That’s not really an issue for us. That’sd who we are.”