WebThe Mütter Museum / ˈ m uː t ər / is a medical museum located in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It contains a collection of anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment.The museum is part of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.The original purpose of the collection, donated by …

WebThe Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval. The museum administers collections containing over 240,000 objects including …

WebAdipocere (/ ˈ æ d ɪ p ə ˌ s ɪər,-p oʊ-/), also known as corpse wax, grave wax or mortuary wax, is a wax-like organic substance formed by the anaerobic bacterial hydrolysis of fat in tissue, such as body fat in corpses. In its formation, putrefaction is replaced by a permanent firm cast of fatty tissues, internal organs, and the face.

WebÖsterreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Wien 2001, ISBN 3-900359-92-X. Elba Maria Frank: Die Institution Muttertag: eine historisch-soziologische Studie, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2009, ISBN 978-3-8364-5057-7. Karin Hausen: Mütter zwischen Geschäftsinteressen und kultischer Verehrung. Der „Deutsche Muttertag“ in der …

WebMuseum in Waco, TX with a Cabinets of Curiosities Room named for John K. Strecker, who was curator for 30 years, the museum was established in 1893 and was the oldest museum in Texas when it closed in 2003 to be incorporated into the Mayborn Museum Complex. A Small Wunderkammer. Web magazine issue dedicated to building a small, contemporary ...

WebRittenhouse Square is a neighborhood, including a public park, in Center City, Pennsylvania.The park is one of the five original open-space parks planned by William Penn and his surveyor Thomas Holme during the late 17th century.. The neighborhood is among the highest-income urban neighborhoods in the country.Together with Fitler Square, the …

WebSachsenhausen (German pronunciation: [zaksn̩ˈhaʊzn̩]) or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners throughout World War II. Prominent prisoners included Joseph Stalin's …

WebThe Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center is a Gettysburg National Military Park facility, with a museum about the American Civil War, the 1884 Gettysburg Cyclorama, and the tour center for licensed Battlefield Guides and for buses to see the Gettysburg Battlefield and Eisenhower National Historic Site.. The museum displays artifacts including cannon, …

WebManayunk (/ ˈ m æ n ə j ʌ ŋ k / MAN-ə-yunk) is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania.Located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Wissahickon and also on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Manayunk contains the first canal begun in the United States (although not the first completed, due …

WebThe Andy Warhol Museum is located on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States.It is the largest museum in North America dedicated to a single artist. The museum holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives from the Pittsburgh-born pop art icon Andy Warhol.. The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie …