Mütter Museum
Through the Weeping Glass
September 22nd, 2011- past February 2012
Cadwalader Gallery
Curated by guest curator Barbara London
Mütter Museum Photographs
September 22nd 2011- February 22nd 2012
Thomson Gallery Hall
Some of what you will find a the Mütter Museum:
- Hyrtl Skull Collection
- A wax model of a woman with a horn growing out of her forehead
- Wax molds of untreated conditions of the head
- The tallest skeleton currently on display in North America
- A a nine-foot-long human colon that contained over 40 pounds of fecal matter which originally came from a sideshow act called the human Balloon
- The body of the Soap Lady, whose corpse turned itself into a soapy substance called adipocere
- Wax models from the early 19th century
- Preserved organs and body parts
- A collection of teratological specimens (preserved human fetal specimens)
- A malignant tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland
- The conjoined liver from the famous Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker
- A piece of tissue removed from the thorax of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth
- A section of the brain of Charles J. Guiteau who assassinated U.S. President James A. Garfield.
Located in the Rittenhouse Square district, the Mütter Museum and the Historical Medical Library are part of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The one-of-a-kind collection should not be missed.
