The Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

This guide to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia traces the building's own history, from surgeon Thomas Dent Mutter's eighteen fifty-eight gift of preserved specimens, given on condition the college build it a fireproof home within five years, to the room raised in eighteen sixty-three to meet his deadline. It follows the collection's nineteen-oh-nine move to the Cope and Stewardson building you stand in now, red brick trimmed in limestone, built for over two hundred eighty-nine thousand dollars before its marble stairs and bronze railings were finished. Look up at the daylit mezzanine ringing the exhibit hall above you as you walk through.