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iMütter Museum · Logan Square / Rittenhouse
Hyrtl Skull Collection
Now showingPermanent collection·$25
139 human skulls acquired in 1874 from Viennese anatomist Josef Hyrtl, collected to disprove the phrenologists' racist claim that cranial shape reveals character.
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- Hyrtl Skull CollectionCourtesy of Mütter Museum
- Botany of NationsCourtesy of Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Native Plants on the Parkway: A Botany of Nations GardenCourtesy of Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
- Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America© Leo Amino Estate. Courtesy of the estate and David Zwirner
- Mütter Museum颐园居 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- The Franklin Instituteajay_suresh via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel Universityajay_suresh, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Barnes FoundationThekohser, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rodin MuseumBobak Ha'Eri, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0