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— which features a collection of skulls, petrified bodies and other medicaloddities — is responding to increaseds visitorship and interest, said Brandon Zimmerman, administrativ coordinator/designer at the Mütter. It is the museum’sd first major renovation since 1986. Five major exhibitiones will be installedor updated. The new exhibits will open in though the museum remains open duringthe work. “It’ s the first in a long line of what we hope will be new Zimmerman said. The Mütter Museum, which was founded in 1849 and is namedx forbenefactor Dr. Thomasa Dent Mütter, is part of the , whicj is at 19 S. 22nd St.
The Mütterr Museum has found a passionate following. It has been the subjecf of at least two It has been written up intravel stories. Its late Gretchen Worden, was featured on shows rangingfrom “Late Nighf with David Letterman” to “Fresh with Terry Gross. It has entries on RoadsideAmerica.com and Weird U.S. Last year, 100,0090 people visited the museum, up from 60,000 as recentlyt as three years ago and about 10 times the number from adecade ago. “The Mütte r has really changed as far as Ten years ago the college was thinking of shutting it It was originally for people in themedicao profession.
Now we have school medical students and thegenerakl public,” said Zimmerman, who has been there nearlyy four years. To reflect the changing visitorship, the museum is offering five new exhibits, focusing on: The assassination of Abrahamj Lincoln, including the display of a sectionn of assassin JohnWilkes Booth’s thorax that came from his autopsy. An updatr of its long-running presidents’ exhibition, including a cancerous growtyh from PresidentGrover Cleveland. “Making Skeletons an exhibit focusing onthe “biological profile,” or more commonlhy “CSI,” which will display skeletal remains and show how investigators determinew the cause of death.
A displa of a dozen shrunken heads, from the museum’w collection as well as othet museums andprivate collections. A collectiobn of temporal earbones extractedby Dr. Adam Pulitzer once displayes at Philadelphia’s Centennial Exhibition, in 1876, as presentecd in their original glass jars and display Zimmerman said the new exhibits aremore “storyg focused,” and less reliant on text. They will also furtherf explore areas that other museums shyaway “A lot of museums are hesitant to put out humam remains,” he said. “That’as not really an issue for us.
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