I agree with you Lee, that the Mutter Museum is both educational and entertainment.
At it's height, the museum was seen as a source of educational wisdom and knowledge; and today, it is seen as more as entertainment/tourist-y attraction to "Regular Joe Smoes." I did find it cool that what we now know about medical science mainly came from the Mutter Museum and Hyrtl's skull collection.
I do agree further that the museum is open because of how the "times are a changing," as the saying goes. Our society does not really care about this museum really, as it did "back in the day." We see it as two-fold: 1) a museum with worthless junk in it (to some Americans); and 2) a place with scientific discoveries and knowledge at our fingertips, pun implied.
~Chad S.
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