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America’s finest museum of medical history, the Mütter Museum displays its beautifully preserved collections of anatomical specimens, models, and medical instruments in a 19th-century “cabinet museum” setting.

Enhance your next visit to the Mütter Museum with our new digital guide! We’re thrilled to team up with Bloomberg Conne...
06/01/2026

Enhance your next visit to the Mütter Museum with our new digital guide!

We’re thrilled to team up with Bloomberg Connects to launch this free guide, which offers expert insights, greater context, and curated content to deliver a more engaging visitor experience.

Features include a newly recorded audio tour of Museum highlights and an American Sign Language video tour.

Explore the digital guide: https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/theCollegeOfPhysiciansOfPhiladelphia

As part of the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting & Museum Expo, our team hosted two workshops at the Mütter Mu...
05/31/2026

As part of the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting & Museum Expo, our team hosted two workshops at the Mütter Museum, challenging guests to reimagine historical moments through the lens of our collections items.

Our staff presented attendees with items from the Museum's large collection of wax and plaster medical teaching models and historical medical instruments and invited the group to explore different creative methods for imagining historical encounters from multiple perspectives.

Thank you to everyone from AAM who joined us for this exciting day!

05/30/2026

NOW OPEN! "The Philly Killer" will transport you to the summer of 1976 as Philadelphia prepared to celebrate America's 200th birthday.

When a mysterious and deadly outbreak emerged, rumors of conspiracy and even murder surfaced. What sounds like the plot of a bestselling crime novel is really the true story of Legionnaires' disease, which was referred to as "the epidemic of the century" at the time.

Here's our team putting the finishing touches on the exhibition this week.

Plan your visit today to see this incredible exhibition, which is part of our 250th lineup! Admission is included with your Mütter Museum ticket. "The Philly Killer" is generously funded by the Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation.

Learn more: https://muttermuseum.org/on-view/philly-killer/

Anatomia del cavallo, a 1500s veterinary text by Carlo Ruini, was the first book to focus exclusively on the anatomical ...
05/29/2026

Anatomia del cavallo, a 1500s veterinary text by Carlo Ruini, was the first book to focus exclusively on the anatomical structure of an animal (rather than a human). Pictured here is a digitized copy of one of the 64 woodcut illustrations in the text, depicting a horse's abdominal cavity opened to reveal the digestive system.

You can learn more about the illustration, its source material, and the author through our Historical Medical Library's digital image library (search ZVh_2.151): https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2446?search=ZVh_2.151

We are highlighting this illustration on World Digestive Health Day, an observance established by the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) to raise awareness of gastrointestinal diseases and disorders. While this illustration depicts an animal, we hope it reminds our human friends to educate themselves about the prevention, diagnosis, and management of these issues!

Learn more from the WGO: https://wdhd.worldgastroenterology.org/

05/28/2026

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, our Senior Manager of Behavioral Health and After School Programs, Emily, is sharing how bilateral drawing allows for stress relief and emotional processing.

Bilateral drawing is a technique used by many art therapists involving making art with both hands at once. It’s a technique featured in our special exhibition, Creative Processing: Art in Therapy!🎨
 
Give it a try! You will need:
✏️ A piece of paper
✏️ Two writing utensils to draw with
✏️A way to hold the paper still (tape, etc.)
 
1.) Position yourself in front of the paper. Begin drawing freely with both hands at once. It does not matter what you draw, but try to have both hands working simultaneously with the same movements.
2.) Change colors or take breaks as desired.
3.) Once you finish, think about how you feel in both body and mind.
 
What was this experience like for you? How do your emotions differ from before you started drawing? Let us know in the comments!

We previewed our upcoming exhibition, "The Philly Killer: Legionnaires' Disease and the Past and Future of Infectious Di...
05/27/2026

We previewed our upcoming exhibition, "The Philly Killer: Legionnaires' Disease and the Past and Future of Infectious Disease," with an engaging evening in partnership with WHYY News!

Erin McLeary, PhD, Senior Director of Collections and Research at the Mütter Museum, René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH, FCPP, Director of Public Health at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and David Barnes, PhD, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, spoke about the outbreak 50 years ago and how it impacts us today.

We want to extend special thanks to Maiken Scott of The Pulse for moderating this thoughtful conversation.

You can see "The Philly Killer" exhibition when it opens this Saturday at the Mütter! Learn more: https://muttermuseum.org/events/philly-killer-conversation-whyy/

📸: Janean Malloy

Summer fun has begun at the Mütter Museum! ☀️ Join us for one of the many exciting programs we have coming up, including...
05/27/2026

Summer fun has begun at the Mütter Museum! ☀️ Join us for one of the many exciting programs we have coming up, including new exhibitions, our monthly Meet & Geek, and more:

5/30: "The Philly Killer" Exhibition Opening
5/30 & 5/31: Final “Vampirism” Pop-Up Exhibit Weekend
6/5: Space Melt Cinema Presents: Nosferatu the Vampyre (sold out!)
6/6: CPR First Aid Training
6/10: Meet & Geek: Colonial Garden Consortium
6/29: Wawa Welcome America 2026
7/9: Meet & Geek: “Creating a City of Medicine” (save the date)

Get more info and RSVP: https://muttermuseum.org/events/

Visit the Mütter Museum on Memorial Day! We are OPEN today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Mark the nation's 250th anniversary by ...
05/25/2026

Visit the Mütter Museum on Memorial Day! We are OPEN today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Mark the nation's 250th anniversary by visiting our special exhibition, "Revolutionary Botany: The College of Physicians and the Origins of American Pharmacy."🌻 You can also explore our other new exhibition, "Creative Processing: Art in Therapy."🎨

Plan your visit: https://muttermuseum.org/visit/

Turn up the volume and transport yourself to 1976! 🎵 To mark the opening of our upcoming exhibition, "The Philly Killer:...
05/24/2026

Turn up the volume and transport yourself to 1976! 🎵

To mark the opening of our upcoming exhibition, "The Philly Killer: Legionnaires' Disease and the Past and Future of Infectious Disease," our team created a playlist of popular songs from that year.

Enjoy this sampling of Billboard's Top 100 Hits of 1976 and be sure to visit "The Philly Killer," opening May 30: https://ow.ly/hUUN50Z3qhB

On this day in 1921, Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie attended a special meeting at The College of Physicians of Philadelp...
05/23/2026

On this day in 1921, Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie attended a special meeting at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. During her visit, she donated a piëzo-electric measurement device that she and her husband, Pierre, used to study radioactivity and radium.

This device is one of two original piëzo machines the Curies used in their discovery of radium and polonium. As a forerunner of the modern dosimeter, it was one of the first tools for measuring radioactivity.

You can learn more about this collections object in our online Catalogue (search no. 2013.9.1): https://tcpp-emuweb.axiellhosting.com/museum/?record=ecatalogue.22165collection's

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