Mutter Museum

If you want to learn more about the city of Philadelphia, you will surely need to consult your Philadelphia travel guide. Once you have obtained it, you can now check where you should go. One of the places that you should never fail to visit is the Mutter Museum. You will definitely learn a lot here and unlike other places, you will never get bored here since there are a lot to see and plenty to marvel at.

This museum focuses on medicine and its relevance to the city of Philadelphia and the nation as well. You can find it in the Center City section. You will surely be dumbfounded at the vast collection of artworks that have something to do with medical oddities along with pathological and anatomical specimens. Aside from that, this is the only place where you will be able to observe the antique equipment used by doctors and surgeons in the past. You can compare the materials and tools that are being used now and you will definitely see the disparity.

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia: Mutter Museum Official Website

http://www.collphyphil.org/mutter.asp

Mutter Museum at Wiki

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCtter_Museum

Mutter Museum Collections

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The Mutter Museum is known all over the world because of its vast collection of skulls and other specimens including those of a wax model of a lady that has grown a horn on her forehead. Another gore exhibit is the tallest skeleton that can be seen in all America. Other exhibits include the human colon that measures about nine feet, which contains forty pounds of feces and the Soap Lady's body, whose corpse became a soapy substance known as the adipocere. These are just some of the things that you will observe when you travel Philadelphia so why not take this chance of a lifetime and visit the museum?

Mutter Museum Reviews

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Pictures of the Collections at Mutter Museum

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Mutter Museum Address
19 South 22nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-3001

Contact:
Tel: (215) 563-3737
Email: museum@collphyphil.org

Mutter Museum Hours:
Open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.