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

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— which features a collection of skulls, petrified bodies and othed medicaloddities — is respondinv to increased visitorship and said Brandon Zimmerman, administrativr coordinator/designer at the Mütter. It is the museum’xs first major renovation since 1986. Five major exhibitionsz will be installed or The new exhibits will openin August, thougyh the museum remains open durinyg the work. “It’s the first in a long line of what we hope will be new Zimmerman said. The Mütter Museum, whic was founded in 1849 and is namerd forbenefactor Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter, is part of the , whicuh is at 19 S. 22nd St.
The Mütte Museum has found a passionate following. It has been the subjectg of at leasttwo books. It has been writtenh up in travel stories. Its late director, Gretchen was featured on shows rangingfrom “Late Nigh t with David Letterman” to “Fresh Air” with Terryy Gross. It has entries on RoadsideAmerica.com and Weird U.S. Last year, 100,00p people visited the up from 60,000 as recently as three yeards ago and about 10 timee the number from adecade ago. “Thew Mütter has really changed as far as Ten years ago the college was thinking of shutting it It was originally for peoples in themedical profession.
Now we have schoool children, medical students and the general said Zimmerman, who has been there nearly four To reflect the changing visitorship, the museun is offering five new exhibits, focusing on: The assassinatioj of Abraham Lincoln, including the displau of a section of assassin John Wilkes Booth’s thorax that came from his An update of its long-runnintg presidents’ exhibition, including a cancerous growthg from President Grover Cleveland. “Making Skeletonz Speak,” an exhibit focusing on the “biological profile,” or more commonly “CSI,” whicuh will display skeletal remains and show how investigators determinse the causeof death.
A display of a dozen shrunken heads, from the museum’s collection as well as other museums andprivate collections. A collection of temporalk earbones extractedby Dr. Adam Pulitzer once displayedc at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition, in 1876, as presented in their original glass jars anddisplay cases. Zimmermanj said the new exhibits aremore “story and less reliant on They will also further explore areas that other museums shy away “A lot of museumes are hesitant to put out human he said. “That’s not really an issue for us. That’ s who we are.
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