The Museum is open today!The Museum will close early at 2PM on Thursday, December 20 and will reopen at 10AM on Friday, December 21.See our Know Before You Go!
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Robert Hicks, PhD, Director of the Mütter Museum and the Historical Medical Library, and William Maul Measey Chair for the History of Medicine writes about the use of Quinine in the Civil War for the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Click href="http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/media/magazine/articles/31-3-quinine.aspx">HERE to read it.
We recently had some unique guests here at the Mütter Museum...
Check out this article about successfully identifying bacterial human pathogens in ancient remains. Co-authored by our one and only curator, Anna Dhody! Click HERE to read it.
Our wet specimens were used to crack a genetic code of cholera! This remarkable genetic decoding was made possible by specimens of victims of the 1849 Philadelphia cholera outbreak. Check out coverage of our fascinating discovery from the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and MedPage Today!
