Mütter Museum

The Mütter Museum is America's premier #medicalhistory #museum, based @CollegeofPhys.

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This one is for plant people!🪴 Join our next Mütter Meet & Geek on Wednesday, June 10, to explore historical green spaces across the city in honor of the nation's 250th!

Sign up for the program, which includes time spent in our Medicinal Garden: https://t.co/HLV1LCMyfV

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On this day in 1788, @CollegeofPhys appointed a committee to plan a library, leading to the creation of what is now known as the Historical Medical Library.

Interested in researching with our collections? Visit https://t.co/Y4lET3WAaf 📚

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New this summer: Mütter Tüesdays! ☀️

We are offering expanded hours so you can enjoy after-hours access to the Museum this season! The Mütter will be open on Tuesdays, starting June 16 through September 1, from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Learn more: https://t.co/ptAkNMiE6l

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We’ve teamed up with @bbgconnects to launch a new Mütter Museum digital guide featuring a newly recorded audio tour and an American Sign Language video tour.

Explore the digital guide: https://t.co/QpafHrzGyD

#BloombergConnects

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As part of the @AAMers Annual Meeting & Museum Expo, our team hosted two workshops at the Mütter Museum, challenging guests to reimagine historical moments through the lens of our collections items.

Thank you to everyone from AAM who joined us for this exciting day! #AAM2026

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We previewed our exhibition, "The Philly Killer: Legionnaires' Disease and the Past and Future of Infectious Disease," with an engaging evening in partnership with @WHYY.

We want to extend special thanks to @MaikenScott of @WHYYThePulse for moderating this conversation.

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Summer fun has begun at the Mütter Museum!☀️ Join us for one of the many exciting programs we have coming up, including new exhibitions, our monthly Meet & Geek, and more!

Get info and sign up on our website: https://t.co/NHeBXOT3Po

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Visit the Mütter Museum on Memorial Day! We are OPEN today from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Plan your visit: https://t.co/prpSfL7qOe

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Turn up the volume and transport yourself to 1976! 🎵

To mark the opening of our upcoming exhibition, "The Philly Killer: Legionnaires' Disease and the Past and Future of Infectious Disease," our team created a playlist of popular songs from that year.
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On this day in 1921, Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie donated a piëzo-electric measurement device to @CollegeofPhys.

You can learn more about this object in our online Catalogue (search no. 2013.9.1): https://t.co/d3rvYvFvh9

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Today, we are marking Gout Awareness Day.

In the early 1900s, Eade's Celebrated Gout Pills claimed to "instantly relieve and rapidly cure" gout, among other conditions.

Learn more through our Collections Catalogue (search no. 2019.14.15): https://t.co/CjuXCgJMnM

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Calling all nature lovers for our next Meet & Geek, highlighting the newly launched Colonial Garden Consortium!🌻

Join us on June 10 to discover how people cultivated and used plants in the early years of Philadelphia's founding!

Secure your spot: https://t.co/HLV1LCMyfV

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Our popular "Vampirism" Pop-Up Exhibit is coming to a close! Don't miss your last chance to explore collections items related to vampirism and learn about how 19th-century diseases and medical anxieties play a part in the folklore around this subject.

https://t.co/cv5gOZsxsj

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Thank you to @visitphilly for highlighting the Mütter in its roundup of The Greatest Exhibitions in Greater Philadelphia in 2026! These include:

🌱"Revolutionary Botany"
🦠"The Philly Killer"
🏙️"Creating a City of Medicine"

Read more: https://t.co/f3abiiLov9

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We're sharing Mütter Museum must-knows for #internationalmuseumday!
-We were established in 1859 with a donation of more than 1,000 objects
-Since then, our collections have grown to 500,000 objects
-We are proud to be one of the 10 best science museums in the US, per @10best

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We had a tea-riffic time celebrating Mother's Day at our Mütter's Day Tea last weekend!

Thank you to Random Tea Room for providing three hand-blended teas inspired by herbs grown in our Benjamin Rush Medicinal Plant Garden.

📸: Jade Foxx Productions

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Visit the Mütter Museum tomorrow for first aid training! Learn how to 'stop the bleed' with The Mobile CPR Project and @PennMert.

No registration is required. You can stop by with your regular admission ticket. Please note this is not a certification.

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Fifty years after the "epidemic of the century," we are launching an exhibition to examine the mysterious, deadly outbreak at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, which led to the discovery of Legionnaires' disease.

Learn about "The Philly Killer" from @whyy: https://t.co/i8BPFsreJN

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Get (v)amped up for our special event on June 5! We're teaming up with Space Melt Cinema to close out the run of our “Vampirism” Pop-Up Exhibit with a screening of "Nosferatu the Vampyre."🦇

Tix: https://t.co/rlX1TWGQ7A

Details from @PhillyVoice: https://t.co/z0Hj66OMwu

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International Nurses Day is recognized each year on Florence Nightingale's birthday.

Credited as one of the founders of the nursing profession, Nightingale revolutionized patient care after her experience caring for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War.