Rittenhouse Square
Grassy Rittenhouse Square , one of Penn's original city
squares, is in a very fashionable part of town. On one side it
borders chic Walnut Street, on the other a residential area of
solid brownstones with beautifully carved doors and windows. The
redbrick 1860 Rosenbach Museum , 2010 Delancey Place, holds
over thirty thousand rare books and James Joyce's original
hand-scrawled manuscripts of Ulysses (Tues-Sun 11am-4pm,
last tours at 2.45pm; $3.50). On summer evenings there are free
outdoor jazz and R&B concerts in the square.
Three blocks northwest from the square, the Mutter
Museum (Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun noon-4pm; $8; tel 215/563-3737),
19 S 22nd St in the College of Physicians (between Chestnut and
Market), is not for the squeamish. Filled with weird pathological
and medical oddities, including sickeningly lifelike wax models of
tumors and skin infections, alongside closets full of skeletons,
syphilitic skulls, pickled internal organs and the death cast of a
pair of Siamese twins, it's unique to say the least.
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