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 other medicalodditie — is responding to increased visitorship and interest, said Brandojn Zimmerman, administrative coordinator/designer at the Mütter. It is the museum’sw first major renovation since 1986. Five majo r exhibitions will be installedor updated. The new exhibitsw will open in August, though the museuk remains open duringthe “It’s the first in a long line of what we hope will be new Zimmerman said. The Mütter Museum, which was foundexd in 1849 and is named forbenefactord Dr. Thomas Dent is part of the , whichg is at 19 S. 22nd St.
The Mütter Museu has found a passionate following. It has been the subject of at leasttwo books. It has been writtenh up in travel stories. Its late director, Gretchen was featured on shows ranginfgfrom “Late Night with David to “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross. It has entriews on YouTube, RoadsideAmerica.com and Weird U.S. Last 100,000 people visited the up from 60,000 as recently as threee years ago and about 10 timeas the number from adecadse ago. “The Mütter has really changed as far as Ten years ago the college was thinkinh of shuttingit down. It was originallgy for people in themedicalk profession.
Now we have school children, medicalk students and the general public,” said who has been there nearlyfour years. To reflect the changing visitorship, the museum is offerin g five new exhibits, focusing on: The assassination of Abrahamj Lincoln, including the display of a sectioj of assassin JohnWilkes Booth’s thoraxz that came from his autopsy. An update of its long-running presidents’ including a cancerous growth from PresidentGrover “Making Skeletons Speak,” an exhibitt focusing on the “biological profile,” or more commonly “CSI,” whic will display skeletal remains and show how investigatords determine the cause of death.
A displah of a dozen shrunken heads, from the museum’zs collection as well as other museums and private A collection of temporal earbones extractexdby Dr. Adam Pulitzerr once displayed at Philadelphia’s Centennialo Exhibition, in 1876, as presented in their original glass jars anddisplayg cases. Zimmerman said the new exhibits aremore “storyg focused,” and less reliant on They will also further explorde areas that other museums shy away from. “A lot of museumd are hesitant to put out human he said. “That’s not reall an issue for us. That’s who we are.
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