Online Exhibitions

Drawing Anatomical Anomalies Spring 2016

This exhibition is the work of students from our third iteration of our Drawing Anatomical Anomalies course.

Memento Mütter

Memento Mütter is an online exhibit that allows you to get uncomfortably close to the Mütter Museum in the comfort of your own home. The name for the exhibit comes from the Latin memento mori– “remember that you shall die."

Civil War Lesson Plans

Explore our Civil War lessons.

Healing Energy: Radium in America

In 1921 Marie Curie came to The College of Physicians to present a gift. Find out what is was and how she and other important scientists discovered new forms of energy at the turn of the 20th century in our new exhibit.

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Under the Influence of the Heavens: Astrology in Medicine in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Before the ideas of Scientific Revolution began to emerge in the mid-16th century, a wholly different view of the natural world dominated the psyche of Western Europe.

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A Philadelphia physician encounters the Great War

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History of Vaccines

The History of Vaccines is the College’s award-winning website that provides in-depth information on the development, use, and delivery of vaccines within a historical context. Much of the content is taken from the collections of the Mütter Museum and the Historical Medical Library.

Please note that our History of Vaccines website is currently experiencing technical difficulties. We advise users to avoid visiting this website.