With Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees announcing that two baby skulls linked to a Pennsylvania murder case were found in the Philadelphia Mutter Medical Museum, some might be wondering how the skulls ...

The collection was later loaned to Penn Museum in 1966, and it was formally gifted to the museum in 1997. For years, Penn Museum displayed a portion of Morton's collection and used the skulls for ...

Now a Ph.D. candidate, she has gathered the world’s largest ancient brain collection to analyze more than 600 specimens up to 8,000 years old from locales such as the U.K., Belgium, Sweden, the ...

In contrast to those whose skulls ended up in his collection, Samuel Morton’s own grave was memorialized with a monument. Pamela L. Geller. What these bones mean today ...

As dehumanizing as this process was, the Morton Collection does contain evidence of resilience and heterogeneous lives. There are traces of people with mixed-race backgrounds such as Black Indians.

As dehumanizing as this process was, the Morton Collection does contain evidence of resilience and heterogeneous lives. There are traces of people with mixed-race backgrounds such as Black Indians.

The museum held an interfaith memorial service Saturday to honor the 19 unnamed Black Philadelphians whose skulls were part of the museum’s Samuel G. Morton Cranial Collection – an extensive ...