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 ...

W.C. Fields and Gwyneth Paltrow have, I would guess, rarely shared the same imaginative space before the mounting of an exhibition at the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Philadelphia Museum Human Remains Visitors look at displays of human remains at the Mütter Museum on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau ...

After two years of research and community input, the Mütter Museum is updating its approach to managing its human remains collection. The museum says it will continue to exhibit human remains in a way ...

Kate Quinn, the Mütter Museum’s often-embattled executive director, is no longer working at the city’s iconic medical history institution. A memo to staff sent out late Monday afternoon stated that ...

I first learned of the Mütter Museum when I saw Gretchen Worden’s enthusiastic description of her job as curator on Errol Morris’ First Person. As Morris focused offbeat camera angles on her, she ...