Mütter Museum

Some pictures I took on the sly at the wonderful and eerie Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. The Mütter is a museum of medical oddities and it's the only one of its kind that's open to the public. If David Cronenberg were a curator, he'd be working here. Their section of infant and fetal specimens can be very moving.

At the top is a lithopedion, a rare medical condition where a fetus dies in the womb, but is not expelled by the body. Over time, the soft tissues are replaced by calcium. The name is from the Greek for Stone Child.

The bottom-most picture is a shrunken head. Seeing it in person, you can feel the power coming from it.