The Mutter Museum Trip was a lot of fun and filled with excitement regardless of the horrible weather. Forget about it being cold, but it was snowing…in October!!! The museum itself was smaller than I expected it to be but there was a lot of interesting stuff. I think some of my favorites included the skeleton of the giant. It was so crazy to think that a man was actually that tall. Can you imagine standing next to him? I wonder what the world must have looked like to him. To him, we were all a bunch of kids, and kids were infants and infants were just pebbles. The twins joined at different spots was very interesting as well. There were lots of drawers of stuff that people had swallowed. Objects like pins, bones, jewelry, or buttons that had been recovered after a person had swallowed it. People are amazing! There were lots of skulls. I think the best part was that they had written the ethnicity of the skull on a card next to it, so then we could all look for an ethnicity similar to ours and be able to compare our head to the skull on display. I didn’t find an Iranian one, but it was cool nonetheless.
They Mutter Museum also had Day of the Dead festivities going on. We had the chance to decorate our own skull cookie and make flowers. After all that, there was a gift shop. It was small but they had a section for stuffed animals that represented different diseases. I have to say that was awesome. I would so want to buy every single one and just have a display in my house showing off the different diseases. It would be such a fun way to learn about them. I really wanted to buy one but they didn’t seem worth the money. Instead I bought two pins. One for me and one for my brother. I always buy something to bring back with me as a memory and I figured the pin would be nice. It has a “U” on it representing the “ooo” sound in “Mutter.” Overall, I feel like the trip was very interesting and a great learning experience and getting to explore Philadelphia a little bit, even if it was in the worst weather possible, was definitely an incredible way to top it all off.