Mütter Museum

It says, basically, what was the most memorable place you've been in all of the trips?

Oh, Mütter Museum, Pennsylvania, Two-Headed Spider Baby.

Still haunts my dreams.

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... it's like the Mutter Museum.

It's a petrified squirrel that was lodged in my air filter.

What, you're, wait, start at the end.

But I grew up born and raised in, in the Philly suburbs.

We have tremendous history in Philadelphia, obviously, as you know, uh, including the Mütter Museum, which is just a world-renowned medical history museum.

So I used to go there in high school and just like sort of, uh, nerd out in the, uh, in their library and looking at their collections, and that really pushed my passion forward.

And the College of Physicians is in Philadelphia, which is a historical organization, and so I really sort of cut my teeth on some of these old early museums.

But I was always thinking to myself, "You know, I would love, as I put together a collection of increasing what I hope is im- importance, that I would have a, a space." So I went to undergrad and med school and residency at Penn, and then I went to upstate New York for seven years afterwards for my first job, and I started thinking while I was up there, "Wow, I really have to display my stuff right, and I'd love to have a museum." So when we came back down to York, I decided, "Hey, let's find a, a property where ultimately I can build a mini museum on it," which I've done, and I started the, the website, and it's just been, it's just been great because honestly, my-- one of my main drivers in doing all this is to educate people.

And I have a lot of people tune into my website, medicalantiques.com, and they tune in, they ask questions, they say, "Hey, this was my great grandfather's," and, "What can you tell me about it?" So just educating the public about my passion has ignited a passion in a lot of other people.

And once I built the museum in York, I had museum curators from really around the world came and visited, including from the Mütter Museum.

One of my proudest moments, their entire, uh, leadership team came out to my museum, and they were looking around like, "Oh my God, this is incredible.

I saw, I think it was Benjamin Franklin.

I saw Benjamin Franklin's kidney stones at the Mütter Museum in Pennsylvania.

Yeah, they got a lot of stuff there.

Yeah.

So like I did a paranormal podcast for years and that opened the door to like guests and just like an understanding of just all of, you know what I mean? Like I met with like paranormal comics and things like that.

And then I also volunteered at the Mütter Museum once.

for like a year and a half, just for fun, just because again, it's just a weird interest of mine.

I really recommend to anyone, comic or not, if you have an interest, do it.

You know what I mean? They don't know at this point.

It's really interesting, actually, because if you go to the Mütter Museum in Philly, they have a whole entire wall of skulls.

There's over a hundred on this wall.

And it's really amazing to look at them all together.