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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
A year ago we launched our petition, which has since garnered tens of thousands of signatures from all over the world. Huge progress has been made. We are bubbling over with pride at what has been accomplished by a scrappy group of neurodivergent queers. Fun fact, the man loved hot pink silk.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
If you aren't able to attend in person please sign up for the virtual session here: 13284a.blackbaudhosting.com/13284a/Postm...
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
🚨TWO feedback groups this month!!🚨 In-Person: o Thursday, April 25 at 12PM, 3PM and 6PM - Online via Zoom: o Sunday, April 28 at 1PM and 4PM These are crucial opportunities to provide feedback to the administration. If you aren't able to attend in person please sign up for the virtual session.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
Anna Dhody is no longer the curator at the Mütter. The news is buried in the latest member email and nowhere on social media but we think people should know. Anna devoted nearly 20 years to the Mütter and those who love it. Her exit is a huge loss for us all.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
Our team woke up to the news out of Baltimore and wanted to express concern. If you have people in the Baltimore area, reach out to them. This is going to affect a lot of people, for a while, not to mention the missing. 🫀
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
BIG NEWS!! The Mütter has started holding focus groups; we NEED supporters to show up! The first ones are THIS THURSDAY 2/29 at the Museum. • Focus Group slots are 12/3/5pm & last 90 minutes. There will be snacks • Email monica.o.montgomery@gmail.com to RSVP Indicate you are with PtM #muttermuseum
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
Roses are red Violets are Blue Without weirdos like us The Mütter Museum would have no revenue 🫀
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
THE MÜTTER MUSEUM IS A UNIQUE AND INVALUABLE MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM, BIO-REPOSITORY AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION NOT A CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Now here we are 30ish years later, they're at it again. Unfortunately, Gretchen is no longer with us. So it's up to us. Call, email, post, tag, share. The people who want to ruin the Museum have been defeated before, we can do it again. Read the quoted article here: web.archive.org/web/20230522...
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
Did you know? The Board has tried to ruin the Mütter Museum before. In the 90s, the Board and leadership tried to steer the Mütter away from medical anomaly, from "death", and from "attracting too much attention". Lucky for us, they failed thanks to the incredible Gretchen Worden.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
We've been trying to think of the best way to describe our feelings about the Unhoused exhibit currently at the Mütter. Homelessness is a very real public health issue that has persisted throughout history.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
Stuck inside on a snow day? Looking for a way to pass the time? Take a few minutes to contact local media & tell them how important it is to keep up coverage on the Mütter! Sunshine is the best disinfectant. Make today the day you write an op-ed to letters@inquirer.com & help us Protect the Mütter!!
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Wondering where yesterday's WHYY article went? So are we! Email and ask: newsroom@whyy.org talkback@whyy.org
Wondering where yesterday's WHYY article went? So are we! Email and ask:
newsroom@whyy.org
talkback@whyy.org
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
WHYY posted an article about the disastrous leadership at the #muttermuseum yesterday...and then almost immediately took it down. Good think we got screenshots
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Out with the old, in with the new. May this be a restorative year for our beloved institution. Here are some ways you can help us protect the Mütter in the new year:
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
@realgdt.bsky.social 💀🫀
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Happy Neil Year! @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
Happy New Year from Protect the Mütter!! Excited for a restorative 2024 🫀
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
We're only a few signatures away from 36k and we'd love to start the new year on a nice even number. If we hit 36k before 2024, we'll do another giveaway 🥳
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
This is pretty cool-our petition is one of the top 10 Change petitions in Philadelphia this year! In fact, it's the 3rd most signed petition. That is thanks to you! Thank you to our incredible supporters who read, signed, shared (and shared and shared and shared) the petition to Protect the Mütter.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
GIVEAWAY ALERT! This "holiday season" we want to give some gifts to our amazing supporters. Enter by commenting on our Instagram post tagging someone who isn't following us but should & enter to win! We'll randomly pick 3 winners. (US shipping only, entries must be made before 12/20/23 11:59PM EST).
Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter sitting in Santa's sleigh in a sparkly top hat adorned with Holly, festooned with PtM swag
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
If you're looking for a great gift this holiday season, consider a Protect the Mütter shirt for your loved one(s)! Available from VollWunder on Etsy and WonderWitch Boutique! All proceeds go to the campaign, helping us boost social media posts and print materials. Links to follow
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Happy Chanuka and chag sameach!
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 23/11/2023
The organizing team at Protect the Mütter wishes a Happy Thanksgiving to all who observe. We are so thankful for our amazing supporters, and for the progress we have made as an organization. At the same time, we must acknowledge the harmful origins of the holiday, as well our city, state and country
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 17/11/2023
We've been a little quiet this month because of some exciting developments behind-the-scenes. Our organizers have been engaged in very productive conversations with persons high up in the administration and feel cautiously optimistic about the future. Good things may be on the horizon.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 12/11/2023
Happy Diwali from the organizing team at Protect the Mütter 🎆
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅 Dr. Mütter was no stranger to bitter rivalries, and he always rooted for the underdog.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Happy Halloween from Protect the Mütter! 💀🦇👻🍬🧛‍♂️🎃🧙🏼‍♀️🏴‍☠️
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Dr. Mütter's Merry Emporium is canceled. Several supporters who have vended at the Merry Emporium in the past alerted us to this alarming development. The administration says they're "listening" but canceling another beloved and well-attended event indicates otherwise.
Good Morning to you - 
I am writing to you as a past participant in Dr. Mutter's Merry Emporium with the following news:  For the past three years we've hosted Dr. Mutter's Merry Emporium as a vendor-focused affair that highlights the scope of Mütter enthusiasts and their talents. With so much interest and attention around our collection, we want to meet that expectation this holiday season with Merriment at the Mutter. This event is scheduled for December 10 and will bring together components of the Historical Medical Library and Mutter Museum to spotlight never-before-seen winter-themed items from our collection, all guided by the experts in our Education Department. For those seeking holiday gifts, we'll pair products from our gift shop with those themes and highlight the local consignment artists we currently carry from. 
We will keep you in the loop should any opportunities to display your products at the Museum come about in the future and we thank you for your interest
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
We made a newsletter! Instead of sending update via change, which no one seems to read/get, we're pivoting to a newsletter. We promise to only send top-shelf Protect the Mütter content, never spam you or share your info. Sign up linktr.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Our email to the #collegeofphysicians Board re: last night's public feedback townhall #muttermuseum #mmutterpostmortem
We would like to extend our genuine thanks to the Board for the thoughtfully moderated town hall last night. While the format was not ideal, we do believe it afforded the local public an opportunity to be heard. Now it is your responsibility to listen.

The overwhelming feedback of the town hall must not be ignored. The attendees were not merely a vocal minority, or a fringe group. You heard from the people who cherish the Mütter. Who want to see it progress, flourish and thrive. Please take heed.

● The Mütter Museum is a unique and vital collection for all people and access is paramount. This includes in-person exhibits and online materials
● Ethical review and repatriation efforts are necessary, and must be handled appropriately
● The current leadership has lost the trust of the membership, the public, and donors
● Updates to the museum surrounding accessibility, and context - from lived experience and medical history - are necessary for the successful future of the MuseumWe hope you will take seriously the comments given last night, which echo the sentiments expressed online and in-person over the last several months. We look forward to continuing this conversation, and the Board's acknowledgement of overwhelming public sentiment. We also hope you took note that decorum was respected, and the heavy handed security element last night was unnecessary. 

We encourage you to take a moment to read the comments on our petition, which now has over 35,000 signatures, to further familiarize yourself with the vast support the Mütter has and its importance to so many. This process you have engaged requires trust. There was a sign last night that read, "we are listening". We hope that is true.

Thank you,
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
No shade to Penn Lighting Associates (😉) but this is some serious hypocrisy. We know the leadership got rid of Mischief because they didn't want a "spooky" Halloween party at the Museum...but they're down to rent the space for such a party? 🤔
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
That's one down.
DR. MIRA IRONS RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT AND CEO OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 25/09/2023
To all our Jewish friends, may your name be inscribed in the Book of Life
"To all our Jewish friends, may your name be inscribed in the Book of Life" on a green background above a skeleton with an open book
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
The first public feedback town hall is supposed to be 10/17, and yet there's no event listing and no information. The administration managed to get $285k from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to collect feedback, why won't they let us register to attend? Or tell us anything about the event?
Text reading "I am once again asking for the pre-registration link for the public feedback town hall" Superimposed in front of senator Bernie Sanders
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Throwback Thursday to this time last year when the Mütter had robust and interesting autumn programming. Under the new leadership we're not even getting a Mischief at the Mütter. The changes happening to the museum are ruinous.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
Cristin spoke of how the Mütter Museum "begs you to be curious", and that Gretchen Worden was instrumental in opening up the museum to the world. We are so grateful to have the support of the genuine expert on Dr. Mütter!
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
So wonderful to see the always incredible Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz in town at book signing of her best-selling book, "Dr. Mütter's Marvels"! Cristin spoke passionately about the importance of public access to the Mütter, how Dr. Mütter himself was regularly ostracized by the medical establishment
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz pictured holding her book "Dr. Mütter's Marvels" and a Protect the Mütter postcard
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
HUGE THANK YOU to our supporters who volunteered to hand out fliers at Market of the Macabre at Laurel Hill despite the heat, humidity, sun, and general aversion to interacting with strangers. That's just how rad our supporters are. 🫀🫀🫀
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Stickers went out today!! Thank you to everyone who sent us a request with their address. Proceeds from Protect the Mütter shirts let us print and send free materials to supporters all over.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
The leadership of the Mütter Museum talks about transparency and accessibility while depriving the public access and alluding to removing more. www.inquirer.com/arts/mutter-...
Text "You keep using that word transparency/I do not think it means what you think it means" over Inigo Montoya
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
Have you cancelled or chosen not to renew your Mütter Museum membership? Speak out! Email info@collegeofphysicians.org and tell them why the toxic leadership at the College of Physicians has cost them your membership. KEEP UP THE PRESSURE.
A broken anatomical heart with the text, "cancelled your membership? Tell the world. Tell them why."
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
The administration at the Mütter (or more likely, the crisis management PR firm they hired to handle their mess) has once again posted backdated responses to recent news pieces. We check the Mütter Matters page every day, & until the evening of Friday 8/24 there hadn't been an update since July 14.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 24/08/2023
Kate Quinn really thought no one would notice when she gave away museum furniture to a non profit she sits on the board of. They say they're not deconstructing the Museum, while literally getting rid of parts of it.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
Gretchen Worden "turned the little-known medical museum into a museum w/a worldwide reputation" & "transformed a collection of sublime anatomical medical oddities & history into a work of art that spoke for itself. "The Mütter wouldn't be the must-see attraction that it is today w/out her guidance."
Painting of Gretchen Worden with superlatives superimposed
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 16/08/2023
Kate Quinn wants to undo the incredible work of the late museum curator & director Gretchen Worden, according to an interview with the New York Times. We won't let her ruin the Mütter. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/science/…
Text reading "'I see my role as getting back to what were prior to taking that left-hand turn with regard to the mission' she said, referring to the era of [Gretchen] Worden" over an image of Kate Quinn (executive director of the Mutter Museum) standing on the interior steps of the museum
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
Kate Quinn is now openly declaring her intention to undo Gretchen's work and legacy at the museum
Ms. Quinn was hired after a dozen years as director of exhibitions and public programs at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. “I see my role as getting us back to what we were prior to taking that left-hand turn with regard to the mission,” she said, referring to the era of Dr. Worden. “We’re actively moving away from any possible perception of spectacle, oddities or disrespect for the collections in our care.”
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 11/08/2023
An excerpt from the excellent piece "Disease, Death, and Personhood: On the Mütter Museum" by @beebrookshire.bsky.social. This piece helps underline the importance of the Mütter and why it's critical to humanity. teamtrash.substack.com/p/disease-de…
If people don’t see disease or death, it’s easy to separate. To say that will never happen to you. But we are all, all of us, temporarily abled. We will all encounter disease, we will all die, and most of us will experience different ability or disability before we do. We will see all of it occur in our families and friends. Pretending it does not happen, focusing on “health and wellness” can’t alter reality. All it can do is make disease and death more foreign, make us react to it with less understanding.
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 10/08/2023
Show your support, and help us boost social media posts and promote the petition. www.etsy.com/listing/1523547386/pro…
Protect the Mütter black t-shirt showing Hyrtl Wall of skulls and a banner saying Censorship is the Enemy of Science
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Protect the Mütter @protectthemutter.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
From the recent @washingtonpost.com piece by Maura Judkis: the Mütter Museum leadership has confirmed what we already knew, that they are keeping a "watch list" of dissenters who visit the Museum.
"Museum leadership confirmed that it is keeping a watch list, though it wouldn’t specify the nature of the security threat."
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