Hello!

At the time of this writing, we are close to 10,000 signatures on our petition. Neil Gaiman and Teller (of Penn and Teller!) have shared. We got a man who doesn't talk to speak up. But perhaps most newsworthy is the Philadelphia Inquirer piece that came out today! Front page placement on the website. The article will run in the Sunday edition tomorrow.

I keep wanting to summarize the article in this update, or point out key quotes, but honestly the things Kate Quinn and Dr. Irons say made me so angry and sad, it's hard to do. They talk about "revamping" the museum, about a "transition" and how the Museum will "lose some folks along the way", which they're fine with.

Kate Quinn doesn't want us in her museum.

Dr. Irons opines that non-medical professionals see exhibits as "spectacles" that we can't empathize with or understand - she calls them "difficult to view". She bemoans the Museum becoming open to the public. 

How much more ableist and elitist can Dr. Irons be?

The article brings up more than one exhibit that was shelved, or cancelled altogether. Notice how the "Year of Dracula" ceases to be? Or the forensic exhibit years in the making never started. Memento Mütter, to be federally funded in perpetuity, has vanished. Staff positions are being "reimagined".

They are undoing years of work and damaging the Museum.

It goes on. Read the article, you'll see what we're talking about. We aren't going to let this happen. The Board has to see that the changes that have happened, are are planned, are wrong for the Mütter. Visitorship will plummet. Millions will be lost. And a unique and valuable institution could be gone forever. 

We can't let that happen. Together we can save the Mütter Museum!