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Carry all the things you'll need for the day in this sleek Mütter Museum Ceph Tote Bag! Two-sided bag with gusset.

Carry a piece of the Mütter collection wherever you go with this laser-etched Cephalothoracopagus Keychain!

Comes in a custom Mütter box.

 

 

This 3" bold image of Chang & Eng's death cast will surely be a conversation piece on your fridge!

Introducing our very own Dr. Mütter String Doll! Poised with his trusty scalpel in hand, Dr. Mütter's "special power" reads "Dr. Mütter wants you to be a cut above the rest." 

Dr. Mütter was famous for performing surgeries including tumor removal, adjustments of cleft palates, and rhinoplasty among others. In a modern day sense, he was quite similar to a plastic surgeon. He is the one we can all thank for originally donating his personal collection of specimens for study, making the Mütter Museum what it is today!

Take a look at his original photo - how do you think he compares to his String Doll self?

Looking to purchase admission to our museum for someone special? Now you can pre-purchase your adult admission tickets through our webstore and have them shipped to your loved ones! These tickets are meant to be given as a gift and should not be purchased for "day-of" admission.

As a courtesy, we do not charge for shipping, so these tickets will automatically be mailed to your billing address. If you would like them sent to a different address, please enter that in the notes section at checkout!

Tickets do not expire and are valid for any entry time during normal visiting hours. Please click the link below to view hours of operation for the Mütter Museum.

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To purchase tickets for immediate use, please visit:

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An image of three skeletons; 

5'3" tall Male

7'6" tall Male

3'6" tall Female

Grit, Gravity & Grace: New Poems About Medicine and Healthcare is a modest collection of forty-one poems by thirty-eight poets that originated from a poetry competition sponsored by the Section on Medicine and the Arts at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia in the winter of 2014 - 2015.

The primary goal of the competition was to bring together poets and those who love poetry from all walks of life in a shared poetic dialogue about medicine, health and healthcare. The secondary goal was to host an evening poetry event at The College in celebration of the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month in April 2015. Poems in this collection are by students, health care practitioners, educators, patients, and their families. They capture unique experiences and perspectives; they speak of vulnerability and ambivalence, insight and epiphany. Some bear witness to caregivers' compassion, others to detachment. Some observe illness and the human condition with humor, others with profound sadness.

The poems are grouped by season as many capture images relevant to a particular time of the year or focus on a disease that peaks during certain months. "Spring" allows us to move from the joy of new birth to the angst of adolescence, from the nourishing nature of intravenous therapy to the fresh bloom of life following remission from cancer. "Summer" reminds us of the devastating polio epidemics of years gone by but also invokes optimism, vacations, the promise of new discoveries and experiences. "Autumn" presents a time for reflection on what it means to be a student, to suffer from depression, to struggle as the caregiver of an aging parent, or acknowledge the growing frailty of the body. "Winter" devolves into dire diagnoses, threats to one's sense of self, and the fears and realities of death, dying and loss; yet even here, the warmth, beauty and resilience of human nature prevail.

Harry Eastlack died at the age of 39 from Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP). FOP is a rare genetic disorder where bons forms in otherwise normal soft tisses of the body (i.e. muscle, ligaments, and cartilage). His skeleton is the only one of its kind on display in North America.