Greece udpate: Today is my second day on Santorini and first full day. Maybe I’m taking a tour of the volcano on the nearby island of Nea Kameni?
After lunch in Philadelphia, we headed to the Mütter Museum. This was our original destination, hence the parking situation. The Mütter (pronounced “mooter”) is a museum unlike any I’ve ever been to before. It’s pretty small, just three rooms, but houses a large collection of skeletons and human body parts. Good thing we ate beforehand!
Upon entering the museum, the first object you encounter is a female pelvis, the skull of a baby and a pair of forceps, depicting how child birth has been performed in times past. Shortly after that is a display titled “Moist gangrene of the hand”. Picture, if you will, the Hand of Glory from Harry Potter.
One thing I really liked about the Mütter is the cell phone tour that is available. Instead of charging for a stupid wand or headset to hear a guided tour, you can use your cell phone to dial a dedicated number to hear about a particular display. How cool is that?
There were many, many more skulls and bones and organs on display that I won’t get into here. Okay, just one more. One display had a number of bezoars! Yet another Harry Potter reference for the enthusiasts out there. Upon leaving we stopped in at the gift shop which fittingly had Hasbro’s Operation game for sale.
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