Kate Quinn, the Mütter Museum’s often embattled executive director, has been relieved of her position at the city’s iconic ...

For years, Penn Museum displayed a portion of Morton's collection and used the skulls for teaching and research purposes. The skulls were placed in storage in 2020 as part of the museum's effort ...

Housed in a 19th century building at The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Mütter Museum highlights the mysteries of the human body through wet specimens (biological samples preserved in ...

In its five-plus decades of existence, the San Jose Museum of Art has amassed a collection of more than 2,700 works. But the public rarely gets a chance to fully realize the enormity and diversity ...

A new long-term exhibition at the Mütter Museum will look back on how Philadelphia's health care workers sprung into action five years ago when the COVID-19 pandemic began, and the huge toll it ...

The Museum of Art, Kochi, purchased the oil painting titled "Girl with Swan" from a gallery in Nagoya City, central Japan, in 1996. It paid 18 million yen, or about 121,000 dollars.

After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police its acquisitions and review its collection. By Graham Bowley and Tom ...

A turning point in their evolution was the development of larger brains, which in turn led to changes in the size and shape of their skulls. New research from the University of Chicago and ...

A ceremony to repatriate the skull of a young Tasmanian man which ... initially as part of its comparative anatomy collection, and latterly its human culture collection, where during the 19th ...

For many older South Koreans, the name "white skull squad" harks back to a dark time of violence and repression. It was first used in the 1950s, when the country's first president, Rhee Syngman ...