Museum Director Dies at 56. (New York Times) Everybody has heard of “that museum in Philadelphia where they keep the foetuses in bottles.” The Mutter Museum is, of course, more than that, and its guiding genius for decades has been Gretchen Worden. Working at the Mutter had been virtually her only job; she transformed the place into one where professionals, hoping the museum’s collection of human anomalies would inform their understanding of normal human developmental processes and anatomy, and the lay public who came to be amazed or even ‘grossed out’ could mingle in comfort and wonder. In the process, annual attendance went from several hundred to 60,000. Listen to her passionate exposition of her fascinating work in this interview with Terry Gross from a 2002 Fresh Air.