Discover the Mütter

There's an interesting article in discover magazine (or maybe its just online - who knows) about the Mutter museum in Philadelphia. If you're ever there I highly recommend going - it's some pretty freaky stuff.

Sorry, I'm being arch; not quite sure how else to react, to be honest. The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach-ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs "incompatible with life."