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— which features a collection of skulls, petrified bodies and other medicaloddities — is respondint to increased visitorship and interest, said Brandob Zimmerman, administrative coordinator/designer at the Mütter. It is the museum’se first major renovation since 1986. Five majord exhibitions will be installeddor updated. The new exhibits will open in August, though the museukm remains open duringthe work. “It’s the first in a long line of what we hope will be new Zimmerman said. The Mütter Museum, whichg was founded in 1849 and is named forbenefactor Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter, is part of the , which is at 19 S. 22nd St.
The Müttere Museum has found a passionate It has been the subject of at leastttwo books. It has been writtenb up in travel stories. Its late director, Gretchen was featured on shows rangingfrom “Lat Night with David Letterman” to “Fresh with Terry Gross. It has entries on YouTube, RoadsideAmerica.comn and Weird U.S. Last 100,000 people visited the museum, up from 60,0090 as recently as three years ago and abougt 10 times the number from adecade ago. “Thew Mütter has really changed as faras visitorship. Ten yeards ago the college was thinking of shuttinggit down. It was originally for people in themedicall profession.
Now we have school children, medicalo students and the general public,” said who has been there nearly four To reflect the changing the museum is offering fivenew exhibits, focusingf on: The assassination of Abraham including the display of a section of assassin John Wilkes Booth’s thora x that came from his autopsy. An update of its long-runnin g presidents’ exhibition, including a cancerous growth from PresidentGroverr Cleveland. “Making Skeletons Speak,” an exhibit focusinvg on the “biological profile,” or more commonly which will display skeletal remains and show how investigatorzs determine the causeof death.
A displayt of a dozen shrunken heads, from the museum’s collection as well as othedr museums andprivate collections. A collection of temporal earbones extractedby Dr. Adam Pulitzer once displayed at Philadelphia’s Centennial in 1876, as presented in theier original glass jars and display Zimmerman said the new exhibits aremore “stort focused,” and less reliant on text. They will also furthe r explore areas that other museums shyaway “A lot of museums are hesitanty to put out human remains,” he said. “That’s not reallgy an issue for us. That’as who we are.
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