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idohistorysometimes · 3 months

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(Holds up megaphone) censoring the bodies of the disabled isn't fixing the problem Kate Quinn, nor is using random groups of people as buzzwords

#history #museum #history museum #museam #living history #museum work #historian #the mütter museum #the mutter museum #save the mutter #medical history #ableism

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sourkitsch · 1 year

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Facial and Cranial Damage from Syphilis, ca 1900, via The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Library

#researching bc I have an idea abt syphilis for a painting + found this thanks mütter #the contrast between the lively tissue damage and how static the hair feels is so fascinating #the Mütter museum #medical illustration

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museeeuuuum · 7 months

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Welcome to the news wrap-up, where I cover a wide variety of current affairs in the history, archaeology, and museum-related realms.

In this video, I discuss the Pokémon x Van Gogh exhibition, some great repatriation news, Mischief at the Mütter Museum, and more!!

#history #museum #youtube #mütter museum #national museum of scotland #vincent van gogh #pokemon #archaeology #the sycamore gap #hadrians wall

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sundere1181 · 6 months

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Im a little museum freak take me to a museum and show me bones and dead and grotesque recreations

#medical museums AAAAOOOOOIIIIIGGGGGHH 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫#i sweat to fucking god i want to go to the mütter museum and the muesum of medicine in paris so fucking bad you dont even understand #theres this other museum i can’t remember the name of where theres this display of like a hall where its a street in the dark ages infected #bu the plague #and its like really immersive and it looks so vccool AOIGH #i love when museums have like statues or mini buildings or recreations of things <3333 #the museum in my small town has a small town recreation in the basement and a whole ass hologram #sun’s originals

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anthroaddict · 11 months

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So. I did a bioanth degree at Bryn Mawr, and did my dissertation with the assurance of the Mütter collection. And then I went to paleopathology grad school because of the Mütter.

Point being that I have them Anthro creds you were looking for.

When I say that the Mütter and it’s curator do everything they can to make the historic displays more modern with updated terminology that’s incredibly respectful, please know that I mean it. When I say that the same people who are yelling about museum ethics and whatnot in the press are the same ones who have not allowed the curator to remove Einstein’s brain from display nor the soap lady, the two most unethically collected people in the museum, know that I’m always shaking with rage about it.

It’s 100% a complex issue, but the Mütter, the hunterian, and surgeons hall in Edinburgh do it right. They work WITH their residents. They don’t USE them. 🖤😻 hope this helps peanut

Yes I agree, it seems they all really care about the collection as people rather than things. Thanks for your insight!

#anthropology #museum #museum studies #mütter museum

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naomiknight-17 · 2 months

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I've decided for my 15th wedding anniversary, I'd like to visit the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia

I have... a bit less than 2 years to save up for the trip

I wanna see the soap lady

#no idea if i can make it happen or not but. i really wanna #mutter museum #mütter museum #mod post #anniversary plans #we didn't get to do anything the last few years because of all the pandemic stuff #maybe... maybe in 2 more years we can make it happen. maybe #also i never travel like ever. so this is a big crazy idea for me

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niche-pastiche · 7 months

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If you're in Philadelphia or can get there please go support the Mutter Mütter Museum at the town hall on October 17th. You have to be there in order to participate so if you know anyone in the area who loves and cares about this beautiful, respectful museum and the work it does please let them know.

More information can be found at the link.

#mutter museum #Mütter Museum #museums #Philadelphia #philly #disability education #this place is absolutely fantastic y'all #they got rid of the new director that was deadset on ruining things #this museum is THE most respectful and thoughtful one I know of #if you go please ask them to make their youtube videos publicly available again they were such an amazing educational resource

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chesapeakebongripper · 7 months

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#microbes #<3 #went to the mütter museum today

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hoochieblues · 9 months

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For anyone following the Protect the Mütter Museum initiative, not only is the petition nearly up to 35k, you can now get shirts designed by a local artist, with proceeds going to the campaign.

#mutter museum #protect the mütter

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honeygleam · 2 years

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through the weeping glass: on the consolations of life everlasting (2011) dir. timothy quay, stephen quay

#through the weeping glass #quay brothers #timothy quay #stephen quay #film aesthetic #film stills #film #american film #american cinema #documentary #documentary film #mütter museum #the college of physicians #vintage aesthetic #human anatomy

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ashtrayfloors · 1 year

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Up to the ears, up to the neck It's for the curious, it's for the hopeful Kick in the doors, climb in the windows Kick in the doors, climb in the windows It's midnight service at the Mütter Museum And I'm glad Glad that you're here

#murder city devils #midnight service at the mütter museum #lyrics #nostalgic jams #mütter museum

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idohistorysometimes · 9 months

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As a follow-up to my Mütter Museum post

Why do most museums seem deathly allergic to consulting the groups they claim to be doing things on behalf of?

Like with the case of the Mütter: why the hell is this ethical conversation being dominated by 2 people who do not have any connection to the disabled, black, or native community? Why are they talking over the LITERAL PEOPLE WHO DONATED THEIR BODIES AND OR ORGANS TO THE MUSEUM alongside members of the disabled, black, and Native communities in relation to exhibits and their potentially problematic aspects? Why are these groups not being consulted to fix these problems?

Why the hell has there been a several-month-long kerfuffle that has resulted in nothing being repatriated? Why am I now seeing disabled bodies or bodies exhibiting an extreme/atypical pathology being called "gross" or its discussion/presence likened to a freakshow or being called "inappropriate"? Why is there so little transparency? Why were stories from people who did consent taken down in the name of consent?

This is a genuine ethical discussion but not when it is being controlled unilaterally by 1 clandestine group who seems to just comprise of 2 people.

Disabled and chronically ill voices need to be included

Black voices need to be included

Native voices need to be included

The people in the collection and their families need to be included.

Every aspect of this complex issue needs to be taken into account, not just 1.

If disabled bodies are too icky to look at and they are unwilling to give back the remains that are being asked to be returned: the current administration at the Mütter needs to step down. And this goes for all other museums. If your ethical conversation results in the exclusion of the very groups you are talking about and the removal of their stories from the narrative in favor of comfort you need to be removed from your position at said institution.

You are not being inclusive, you are disregarding the voices of the people who actually have a horse in this race while stigmatizing the overall conversation surrounding both ethics and diversities of the human body.

#history #museum #history museum #museam #medical history #save the mutter #the mutter museum #the Mütter museum #ableism #racism #repatriation #museum work

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rustbeltjessie · 1 year

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Join the many who have deep personal connections to the Mütter 😂 we have a club. I mean, not officially, but whatever.

It would be a cool club, if it did exist!

#replies #notmindingthebuzzcocks #mütter museum

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monkeymeghan · 1 year

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I’m so excited for tomorrow. My sister and I are going to Philly for the day. We are going to the Mütter Museum in the afternoon, which seems like a really cool place. Then tomorrow night we are seeing Kings Elliot ( @kingselliot ) and Stephen Sanchez. I can’t wait!!!

#personal #sister #family #philly #philadelphia #pennsylvania #Mütter museum #mutter museum #kings elliot #stephen sanchez #concert #live music

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marmolita · 1 year

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so I used to watch this tv show Oddities that was a reality show about Obscura Antiques and Oddities, a shop carrying strange and macabre items in NYC (it was great fun, definitely recommend, and I did indeed go to their shop when I had the opportunity, though apparently it's gone now). In any case today I'm thinking about Jon watching this show before he became the Archivist, and possibly spooky stuff happening there after?

I'm imagining for example Martin looking at a piece of Victorian hair art and being like, "Is that-- is that human hair?" and shuddering but also being fascinated...

#tma #did anyone else ever watch this show?#I've always been fascinated by macabre antiques #if you're into creepy history btw also check out the mütter museum in philadelphia

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tokesterpastry · 2 years

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Let's go Philly!

#Philly #Pennsylvania #Mütter #museum

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