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Mütter Museum, Philadelphia, PA
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Mütter Museum

Mütter Museum is a museum in Philadelphia, PA, part of the Philadelphia guide. Cost: under $25.

19 S 22nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19103 · Philadelphia, PA

Why you should go…

Housed in the stately College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Mütter is America's best-known museum of medical history, equal parts fascinating and unsettling. Wood-and-glass Victorian cabinets display anatomical and pathological specimens, antique surgical instruments, and famous holdings like slides of Albert Einstein's brain and a plaster cast of conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker. It is a compact museum that lingers with visitors long after they leave, and a singular Philadelphia experience you genuinely cannot find anywhere else.

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