What's Inside This Museum Is Pure Terror

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The Mütter Museum gets its name from Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter who, in 1858, donated the original collection of medical artifacts.

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Mütter's purpose for donating his personal collection was to create a place for biomedical research and education.

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But over the years, the Mütter Muesum has opened its doors to the public as its collection has grown.

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These conjoined twins are some of the Mütter Museum's creepiest residents.

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The skeleton of a dwarf.

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Smile for the camera!

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Wax model of a child's body.

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This nine-foot-long human colon is one of the most popular attractions at the Mütter Museum. It contained at least 40 pounds of feces when it was removed from the body of a circus performer known as the Human Balloon.

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The outside of the museum.

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Collection of children's skeletons.

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Aside from its actual medical specimens, the Mütter Museum is home to many wax models. They demonstrate the stages of different diseases.

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That looks like it hurts.

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The Mütter Museum even has pieces of Albert Einstein's brain that are divided onto microscope slides.

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Even though it seems like the creepiest place on Earth, the Mütter Museum welcomes over 130,000 visitors every year.