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Mutter Museum Review
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Mütter Museum
Museums / Galleries, Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Fodor's Review:
Skulls, antique microscopes, and a cancerous tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland's mouth in 1893 form just part of the unusual medical collection in the Mütter Museum, in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a few blocks south of the Please Touch Museum. The museum has hundreds of anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments, and organs removed from patients, including a piece of John Wilkes Booth's neck tissue. The collection contains 139 skulls; items that belonged to Marie Curie, Louis Pasteur, and Joseph Lister; and a 7-foot, 6-inch skeleton, the tallest on public exhibition in the United States.
INFO
- Address: 19 S. 22nd St., Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA
- Phone: 215/563-3737
- Web site
- Cost: $12
- Open: Mon.-Thurs. and weekends 10-5, Fri. 10-9
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