{"id":779409,"date":"2026-05-07T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/779409\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:24:18","slug":"new-philly-exhibit-marks-1976-legionnaires-disease-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/779409\/","title":{"rendered":"New Philly exhibit marks 1976 Legionnaires\u2019 disease discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second exhibit called \u201cCreating a City of Medicine\u201d will open Saturday, June 27, and will highlight Philadelphia\u2019s impact on health, medical education and innovation over the last 250 years in the United States.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-740531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Mutter-Museum-Legionnaires-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of medications from the M\u00fctter Museum\u2019s special exhibition\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\"  \/>A close-up of medications from the M\u00fctter Museum\u2019s special exhibition \u201cMarketing Medicine: The Art of Selling a Cure.\u201d (Constance Mensh for the M\u00fctter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a critical part of the fabric of Philadelphia\u2019s rich, diverse history, and uniquely qualified to celebrate the evolution of American medicine, medical education, and public health through these exhibitions,\u201d Erin McLeary, the museum\u2019s senior director of collection and research, and Sara Ray,\u00a0 the museum\u2019s senior director of interpretation and engagement, said in a statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>Access to the exhibits, which are funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.measeyfoundation.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin and Mary Siddons Measey Foundation<\/a>, are included with purchase of a museum ticket.\n<\/p>\n<p>The museum and college will kick off the Legionnaires\u2019 exhibit with a special preview event on Friday, May 15, featuring a panel discussion moderated by Maiken Scott, host of WHYY\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/programs\/the-pulse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Pulse.\u201d<\/a> Panelists include M\u00fctter Museum\u2019s Erin McLeary, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia\u2019s Director of Public Health Ren\u00e9 Najera, and David Barnes, associate professor of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania.\n  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-740532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Mutter-Museum-Legionnaires-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A visitor opens a drawer from the Chevalier Jackson Collection of swallowed objects at the M\u00fctter Museum\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\"  \/>A visitor opens a drawer from the Chevalier Jackson Collection of swallowed objects at the M\u00fctter Museum. (Constance Mensh for the M\u00fctter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)<\/p>\n<p>More information on the preview event and ticket registration <a href=\"https:\/\/muttermuseum.org\/events\/philly-killer-conversation-whyy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can be found at the museum\u2019s website<\/a>.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second exhibit called \u201cCreating a City of Medicine\u201d will open Saturday, June 27, and will highlight Philadelphia\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":779410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,64166,139924,1448,2830,1311,30814,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-779409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-legionnaires-disease","tag-mutter-museum","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-250","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116532810268572009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}