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Mütter Museum - a 19th century style cabinet museum displaying medical artifacts and oddities (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dude, I’ve been there. It’s creepy as shit and super amazing. You should go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

When I went a decade ago one of the first displays was the corpse wax lady in the coffin. It really set the tone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

2nd that, we went last year and it rocked!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I went there in like 2003 or 2004 and enjoyed it. Wanted to take my wife there when visiting the US recently, but just couldn't reasonably fit it in with the travel times.