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Don’t miss a special screening of "Virulent: The Vaccine War" tomorrow at 6 PM! Following the screening, film producer Laura Davis and director Tjardus Greidanus will join an expert panel to discuss the film and the public health impacts of anti-vaccine activism.
Register here: https://muttr.org/Virulent
Edit (5:03pm): The link is now live in the event page (shared below). If for some reason it does not show up for you, please refresh your browser.
Don’t forget! Tonight’s Postmortem Project Town Hall, will be live streamed.
No registration is required to view the live stream – you can just head to the event page on our website any time after 5 p.m. today and a link to join will be available.
You can access the event page here: https://muttermuseum.org/events/postmortem-mutter-museum-project-kick-off
If you registered to attend tonight’s Postmortem Project Town Hall in person, please be sure to check your inbox for a confirmation email! Important details about the event are included.
Note: Advance registration was required. Walk-ins will not be permitted.
Join us in discussing topics that are important to you.
If you are interested in viewing the live stream of tomorrow’s Postmortem Project Town Hall, the link to access will be posted on the event page on our website at 5 p.m. tomorrow.
You can access the event page here: https://muttermuseum.org/events/postmortem-mutter-museum-project-kick-off.
As a reminder, this is just the first of many public engagement opportunities. More in-person and fully virtual chances to share your valuable insight and feedback are coming soon!
For those who registered to attend the Town Hall in person, a confirmation email with all the details you need for tomorrow evening will be in your inbox today!
Join us on October 22 for a Pay-What-You Wish early morning sensory-friendly event for neurodiverse visitors and their families!
Learn about medical history, see special pop-up exhibits with touch objects, and explore our medicinal plant garden.
Register: https://loom.ly/GWe2Ni8
Drop in for our "Bernard Behrend Lecture: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: Deus or Machina?" on October 26!
Artificial Intelligence in medicine has seemingly been 'just over the horizon' for a half century. Well, AI has definitely arrived. With fanfare. And with a complicated mix of peril and promise, knowns and unknowns, advocates and abolitionists. In this talk, we will explore what AI actually is today, where is AI is mostly likely to be impactful in the near term, both for better patient care and to alleviate clinician burnout. We will discuss what we (on the front lines) are grappling with as AI washes over research, clinical care, medical education and training, and business operations in healthcare. Will AI in medicine be a higher, godlike power diminishing the role of clinicians or something more akin to the stethoscope or radiographic scan - a transformative (virtual) machine deployed in the service of healthcare? A deus or a machina?
Register: https://loom.ly/YFla2jA
You're invited to "The Only Winner in War is Medicine: How World War II Spurred Medical Breakthroughs that Saved Countless Lives" book launch on October 21!
Join surgeon and author Andrew Lam, M.D., as he reveals how D-Day, Luftwaffe bombing raids, top-secret Liberty ship cargo, and aerial dogfights during the Second World War bequeathed humanity with innovations in surgery, cancer treatment, and trauma care that still serve us today.
The history of medicine is replete with advances made by hard-working, maverick doctors who, through intelligence, serendipity, and perseverance, made astonishing progress against humankind’s deadliest diseases.
Yet this is now how many of our most extraordinary discoveries were made. One thing spurred more medical breakthroughs than any other: war.
Register: https://loom.ly/-GHIeiQ
Join us on October 20 at 7 p.m. for a screening of “Virulent: The Vaccine War,” a documentary about anti-vaccine activism in an age of COVID-19, social media influencers, and easy access to misinformation and disinformation about vaccines.
Following the screening, film producer Laura Davis and director Tjardus Greidanus will join an expert panel to discuss the film and the public health impacts of anti-vaccine activism. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session with the public in attendance.
Register: https://loom.ly/p75HnKg
Reading is WHAT? Fundamental!
Grab your books and assemble your quizzo squad to test your medical history prowess through four rounds of trivia on October 18! Join your host, the fabulous Ophelia Hotass, and show off team's Mütter knowledge through a series of questions and a chance to win special prizes.
Mütter Members are required to register for the entire team, but non-members are welcome to join the team. We recommend teams of 4-6 participants to please register under your team name.
Register: https://loom.ly/vr3oKE0
Don't miss out on our VIRTUAL Historical Happy Hour: Books on Medical Astrology on October 9! 💫
Astrology, described the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means, has evolved into a cultural phenomenon, informing people on their days, weeks, months, and years based on the positions of the planets and the stars.
Our Historical Happy Hour will discuss examples and images pulled from materials straight from the stacks of our Historical Medical Library 📚
Register: https://loom.ly/-VggsZ8
We have an exciting slate of concerts coming this fall!
You don't want to miss our Concerts at the College series making its return on Friday, October 6! Register today to hear renowned musicians from The Philadelphia Orchestra play a special harp and string concert in The College of Physicians of Philadelphia's historic Mitchell Hall!
This concert will feature music for the season inspired by stories of Edgar Allan Poe, as well as Bela Bartok’s Third Quartet. Bartok was influenced by Transylvanian folk music, and this work features his characteristic “night music”, evoking the melancholy and eerie atmosphere of nature in the dark.”
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On October 16, we welcome you to our Music for Food Benefit Concert! The performance will raise money to benefit The Sunday Love Project , a local nonprofit that feeds the homeless and builds community. This concert is part of Music for Food, a musician-led initiative for local hunger relief.
Tickets are limited so register today! 100% of your donation goes to The Sunday Love Project, this year's beneficiary of Music for Food.
Register: https://loom.ly/RDRwmcE
As part of Banned Books Week, on October 4 join Hannah Marcus, PhD for a virtual conversation with College of Physicians Special Collections and Rare Books Librarian Tyi Marx as they discuss Marcus’ book "Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy".
"Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy" (University of Chicago Press, 2020), explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on many of these texts during the Counter-Reformation. This account explains how and why the books prohibited by the Catholic Church in Italy ended up back on the shelves of private and public Italian libraries in the seventeenth century.
Register: https://loom.ly/PUvbXWs
Don't miss the Section on Public Health on October 2 at 6p.m. for a discussion on climate change with Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD!
Dr. Duhaime has written "Minding the Climate: How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis". In her book, Dr. Duhaime discusses how our decisions and understanding of complex problems like climate change are influenced by neuroscience and the evolution of our brains. Dr. Duhaime will present key points from the book, followed by a moderated discussion of strategies about how to use these insights.
Register: https://loom.ly/n7JglVA
There are even MORE fall events coming up and we hope you can join us!
This is just a sample of the fall event series presented by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which includes the Mutter Museum and Historical Medical Library.
Explore the full schedule of educational programs, panel discussions, musical performances, and more: https://collegeofphysicians.org/events/
Our fall events are in full swing!
A new exhibition kicks off this weekend and is followed by a series of robust programming through the end of the year.
This is just a sample of the fall event series presented by the Mutter Museum and Historical Medical Library, both part of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
See the full list: https://loom.ly/g2DrTl0
GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT: We are excited to share that, with grant support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, we will be launching Postmortem: Mütter Museum, a collaborative public engagement project.
The goal of Postmortem will be to encourage feedback on the Museum through town hall discussions, on-site workshops, and feedback stations in the building. Along with this will come a new exhibition and new online videos exploring complex questions about respect, consent, and ethics related to the collection, interpretation, and display of the human remains in the Mütter Museum.
Information on how YOU can participate in the public feedback opportunities is coming very soon.
Read more about this impactful grant and the Postmortem: Mütter Museum project here: https://bit.ly/3EBZ66L
Explore the full list of 2023 Pew Center for Arts & Heritage grantees here: https://www.pewcenterarts.org/2023grants
Join the College of Physicians of Philadelphia's Section on Medicine and the Arts for a conversation and book launch with the faculty directors of RX/Museum. Lyndsay Hoy, MD and Aaron Levy, PhD of Rx/Museum will reflect upon the power of arts engagement in times of crisis and the inherent value and applicability of the arts to medicine and its practitioners.
Rx/Museum is an arts initiative that seeks to bring the museum experience to spaces of caregiving. It initially emerged as a grassroots effort between an art historian and a physician advocating for the essential role of the arts amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Over time, Rx/Museum has grown into a sustained collaboration between Penn Medicine and Philadelphia arts institutions and a virtual community of over 1,300 clinicians, caregivers, and patients from across the region and throughout the country. Within this work, the arts reveal themselves as integral to fostering humanistic learning and well-being in medicine and beyond.
Register here: https://loom.ly/q6TDHS0
Learn more about Rx/Museum here: https://loom.ly/vH37xE4
New Way to Access our Collection: We are pleased to announce the launch of our NEW collections database which contains more than 20,000 records and more than 5,000 high-resolution photographs that were previously unavailable.
This database is completely FREE and will make the Museum’s collection easier to access than ever before for both researchers and the public.
The Collections Portal can be explored here: https://tcpp-emuweb.axiellhosting.com/museum/
You can read the full story from the Philadelphia Inquirer: https://www.inquirer.com/arts/mutter-museum-database-human-remains-20230901.html
Frank Franklin, PhD, JD, MPH, the Deputy Commissioner of Health for Philadelphia Department of Public Health will be joining us for this Thursday's movie screening.
Dr. Franklin will discuss concussions, head injuries, and injury prevent.
Get tickets: https://muttermuseum.org/events/muvies-mutter-concussion
Don't miss extended Museum hours and a special outdoor screening of Concussion (2015) on August 24th! 🎥🍿 Tickets includes Museum admission, movie screening, popcorn, and 1 beer from Stickman Brews.
About Concussion:
A Pittsburgh-based neuropathologist discovers a degenerative brain disease now known as CTE in the autopsies of several deceased pro-football players. After presenting his research, the doctor finds himself under fire from the NFL.
Register here: https://muttr.org/MoviesAugust2023
In the aftermath of his polio diagnosis at age eight, Tom Fetterman found friendship, community, and the strength of his own resilience. Tom’s positivity in the face of adversity grounded him and helped him quickly adapt to living with a disability. He went on to travel the world and founded a company, Fetterman Crutches, to help others with disabilities around the globe.
With August being National Immunization Awareness Month, let this serve as a reminder to stay up-to-date on your vaccinations! Tom’s story is the final installment of our video series, My Time in an Iron Lung. You can watch the full video on our YouTube channel, along with the other two videos in this series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RUr-TEs7JU
Out4Stem, a paid after-school internship aimed at providing Philadelphia’s LGBTQ+ high school students with healthcare and STEM-oriented instruction, mentorship, academic support, and college/career preparation, is currently recruiting!
Learn more and apply here: https://collegeofphysicians.org/education/out4stem
Do you know any LGBTQ+ teens interested in Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics? Our paid after-school internship for Philly high school students is still recruiting!
Learn more about Out4STEM here: https://collegeofphysicians.org/education/out4stem
Don't miss extended Museum hours and a special outdoor screening of Concussion (2015) on August 24th! 🎥🍿 Tickets includes Museum admission, movie screening, popcorn, and 1 beer from Stickman Brews.
About Concussion:
A Pittsburgh-based neuropathologist discovers a degenerative brain disease now known as CTE in the autopsies of several deceased pro-football players. After presenting his research, the doctor finds himself under fire from the NFL.
Register here: https://muttr.org/MoviesAugust2023
The Red Cross is looking for YOUR blood type to help meet patient needs. Join us at the College of Physicians on August 17 to donate. 🩸❣️
About the American Red Cross:
The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies through the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. We shelter, feed and provide comfort after disasters; supply about 40% of the nation’s blood; teach skills that save lives; provide international humanitarian aid; and support military members, veterans and their families.
The Red Cross of Southeastern Pennsylvania serves a population of 4.2 million people in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. Last year, we provided comfort and financial support to 4,887 people after local disasters; responded to 745 home fires, helping a total of 2,789 people; installed 2,658 free smoke alarms and made 1,106 homes safer; collected 101,550 blood donations and 29,808 platelet donations; trained 50,371 people in lifesaving skills like CPR and First Aid; and delivered 2,354 services for members of the military, veterans and their families.
Register here: https://muttr.org/BloodDrive
Don't miss our Allied Health Student Mixer on August 11th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. !
All graduate level students in healthcare professions are encouraged to visit the College of Physicians for an evening of socializing and networking. Attendees will enjoy music, food and drinks, and networking in the Benjamin Rush Medicinal Plant Garden. Students will also have the opportunity to engage with and learn from respected leaders in the medical field, from varying medical disciplines, and have access to the Mütter Museum and Spit Spreads Death and Unseen special exhibitions.
Register here: https://bit.ly/AlliedHealthMixer
As part of our work to preserve and expand access to our treasured collection, we are pleased to announce the completion of state-of-the-art renovations to our storage and lab facilities.
This project will dramatically expand the Museum’s research capabilities as well as access to its 35,000-item collection for scientists and researchers in Philadelphia and around the world.
Read more from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
The Mütter Museum's $3.2 million renovation will modernize and fireproof its collection storage and research facilities.
You're invited for extended Museum hours and a special outdoor screening of Philadelphia (1993)! 🎥🍿 Tickets include Museum admission, movie screening, popcorn, and 1 beer from Stickman Brews.
About Philadelphia:
After a successful gay lawyer is fired from his prestigious law firm due to the fact that he has AIDS, he teams up with an attorney to sue the partners for discrimination.
Register here: https://bit.ly/MoviesJuly2023
Join us for our first Wellness Wednesday of the summer featuring mindfulness and meditation in the Benjamin Rush Medicinal Garden on July 19!
Recharge, refresh, and cultivate greater present moment awareness with experiential, guided meditation led by Ahaji Schreffler, Founder of the Drexel University Meditation Group.
This session is designed to help participants tune in to their senses by exploring sights, sounds, smells, and tastes with mindful awareness. Mindfulness meditation can help reduce stress and foster inner calm, and compassion.
Whether you’re a beginner or a skilled practitioner, this session is for you!
Register here: https://loom.ly/eaea92I
Join us on Tuesday, June 27 at the Mütter Museum for Wawa Welcome America's FREE MUSEUM DAY as part of Philadelphia's Independence Day week celebration! 🎆
While a limited amount of tickets will be available for walk-ups, we strongly suggest reserving your ticket ahead of time.
Register here: https://muttr.org/Wawa2023
Congratulations to Kate Quinn, Executive Director of the Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library, on her appointment as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for ICOM US .
In this role, she will represent and advocate for U.S. museums’ international interests within the global community.
Read the official announcement from ICOM US here: https://www.icomus.org/ and our press release here https://bit.ly/MM-ICOM.
At the age of nine, Audrey King was stricken with polio and spent two months in an Iron Lung.
Taken out of school and kept away from other kids, her experience of loneliness left permanent marks. Despite missing out on parts of her childhood, as an adult, she found meaning in her work as a child psychologist.
Hear her remarkable story as part of our series "My Time Inside an Iron Lung" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03xraxDAh3g
Many thanks to Audrey for sharing her story with us.
Next Tuesday, June 13 at 2pm, visitors who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing are invited for a free American Sign Language Tour of the Mütter!
Participants can experience the Mütter's collection in depth and learn about anatomy, pathologies, and medicine from the 19th century to today!
Register here: https://muttr.org/ASLTour2023
A statement from The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Board of Trustees
Today’s theme is !
While the items in in Chevalier Jackson’s collection are not food, they were swallowed. Jackson developed methods and tools for removing foreign objects from human airways.
You can explore the collection of 2,000+ foreign objects he extracted in his nearly 75 year career by visiting the Mütter Museum.
The Chevalier Jackson Collection includes 2,374 inhaled or swallowed foreign bodies that Dr. Jackson removed from patients’ throats, esophaguses, and lungs.
Throughout we will be highlighting exhibitions, collections, and more at the Mütter Museum that align with this year’s Museum Week themes.
Today is and we want to draw your attention to Going Viral, an exhibition that examines the intersection of disease and environment through the lens of three major theories of infection.
Learn more about Going Viral and plan your next visit!
Going Viral examines the intersection of disease and environment through the lens of three major theories of infection.
🩸🅾️🅱️🅰️🆎🩸 The Red Cross is looking for YOUR blood type to help meet patient needs. Please sign up for our blood drive this Saturday, June 3. A few spots remain, so register now!
Donate blood with the American Red Cross at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia!
There's still time to register and see debut author Jasmine Brown in conversation with College of Physicians Fellow Dr. Kamilah Jackson as they discuss Brown's book "Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century"!
Register here: https://muttr.org/TwiceAsHard
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This year's theme is "There's More to the Story."
To celebrate, we're shining a light on the history of our Historical Medical Library at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia through images from our Sturgis Photograph Collection and the College archives 📸.
Almost as old as the organization itself, the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia has been evolving for over two centuries. Established in 1788, the Library was Philadelphia's Central Medical Library for over 150 years, serving medical schools, hospitals, physicians, and other health professionals.
As the organization grew, so did the Library collections. Our current building, built in 1909, has continued to evolved with this growth.
The College's original Reading Room, Ashhurst Hall, with it's grand fireplace and rows of card catalog cabinets, now provides space for programming and events. The Norris Reading room, now home to researchers and weekend exhibitions of library materials, originally held periodicals that Philadelphia medical professionals would browse for the latest news in medicine from around the world. The large brick wall our patrons see along the East side of the Benjamin Rush Garden is the extension of our library stacks, built in 1955, and which doubled the capacity for our library's holdings at the time.
Today, we are an independent library dedicated to the history of medicine and the medical humanities, serving a global community of scholars, health professionals, students, and popular writers each year.
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ID: Three photos, each with a gloved hand holding a black and white historical photograph of the same space. 1) Photo of tables, chairs, and a woman sitting at a desk, held in front of a room with wood floors, brown walls covered in portraits, and a blue and white arched ceiling. 2) Photo of ornate stone fireplace with shelves of papers on either side and two leather chairs in the foreground, held in front of the same fireplace with an exhibit case to the left and prints of library material images framed on teal blue walls. 3) Photo of library stacks structure being built, held in front of a brick wall with vines and bushes.
Don't miss Penn Medicine student and debut author Jasmine Brown as she discusses her book "Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century" on May 11!
Selected as one of Shondaland’s “Best Books of January 2023”, “Twice as Hard is a brilliant exploration about the work of several Black women and their vast contributions to medicine.”
In Twice as Hard, Brown establishes a lineage of Black women doctors whose accomplishments are undeniably important and deeply contemporary. As she profiles each woman, ranging from Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, who graduated 14 months after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and provided medical care for the newly freed slaves, to present day leaders, Brown’s own experiences are interwoven in these intimate histories.
Register here: https://muttr.org/TwiceAsHard
Join the Section on Medicine and the Arts and the Delaware Valley Medical Student Wellness Collaborative for the 5th Annual College of Philadelphia Story Slam on May 10th!
All are welcome to attend and the metropolitan Philadelphia medical schools are invited to field a team of two storytellers—one medical student and one physician or medical student at any level. Each contestant will have 5 minutes to tell a medically-related story and at the end, the audience will select the three best stories.
Schools may identify their storytellers in any way they see fit. This can be by inviting submissions or by organizing a local story slam as a trial.
Register here or link in bio: https://muttr.org/StorySlam2023
Did you know that “mütter” is German for “mother”?
Join us on May 14 for "Mütter's Day Brunch" to show appreciation to those that have held a special role in your life!
Register and find more information here: https://muttermuseum.org/events/mutters-day-brunch-0
This event is for Mütter members and their guests! Become a member to support our staff and our mission at muttr.org/join
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In the aftermath of his polio diagnosis at age eight, Tom Fetterman found friendship, community, and the strength of his own resilience. Tom’s positivity in the face of adversity grounded him and helped him quickly adapt to living with a disability. He went on to travel the world and founded a company, Fetterman Crutches, to help others with disabilities around the globe. With August being National Immunization Awareness Month, let this serve as a reminder to stay up-to-date on your vaccinations! Tom’s story is the final installment of our video series, My Time in an Iron Lung. You can watch the full video on our YouTube channel, along with the other two videos in this series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RUr-TEs7JU
Apparently it's Film Reel Day! Last year we received a donation of silver nitrate film reels with medical labels - the donor did not actually know for sure what was on them, as they had belonged to a late family member. We had them digitized, and found a number of medical procedures and anatomical demonstrations produced by Wyeth- now owned by Pfizer - in the 20s and 30s. Silver nitrate film becomes a fire hazard as it deteriorates, so we recommend getting pre-1950's film scanned and disposed of!
For #GivingTüesday in 2019, you raised over $10,000 to get our Iron Lung out of storage and on permanent view. In 2020, you helped us bring back everyone's favorite, the Mütter Calendar. This year you raised over $16,000 (and counting!) to support our Historical Medical Library's digitization, conservation, and renovation projects! We can't wait to keep you updated on our progress towards opening the Library to the public in the spring. If you don't already, follow our Library @cpphistmedlib on their Twitter and Instagram accounts, too! Thank you for your extraordinary kindness today and every day! If you would still like to contribute towards our Giving Tüesday campaign or learn more about the Library, head to muttr.org/UnlockHML
It's back! The Mütter Calendar has officially returned for 2022. Snag yours with a $35+ donation at bit.ly/donatecpp! We hear they make great gifts... This year our calendar features photography from Nikki Johnson and our exhibition, Unseen. The objects showcased are in permanent storage and not visible to our visitors. Now you can go behind the scenes of our collection- from your home! Your donation directly supports our mission to advance the cause of health while upholding the ideals and heritage of medicine. By exploring the human body, disease, and treatment, we are encouraging dialogue, questions, and thought that are necessary to make informed decisions around health.
Happy Veterans Day! From the Civil War to today, we thank those who have served. . . . . Clip of WWI Soldiers in the Fifth Liberty "Victory" Loan Parade via The Library of Congress.
Yesterday was National Thread the Needle Day, so we're taking a look back at a moment when museum staff had to navigate a tricky situation. Items in the Museum's collections are so often delicate that they can only be moved by hand. In this video, Carol Orzel's skeleton is being carefully carried to be placed on display. If you listen closely, you can hear Museum Curator Anna Dhody say, "Thread the needle!" Carol's final wish was to be displayed here at the Mütter Museum. You can find her here at the Museum alongside her jewelry (as was also her request).
Whether you're walking on 22nd Street or not today, allow us to bring you this Medicinal Plant Garden *moment of zen*.
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