Thanks for the info - I'm going to research this and see if it will ever be in Atlanta. We have an exhibit at our Ferbank museum called "Grossology: The [impolite] Science of the Human Body which has a vomit center (you learn all about why the body expels certain foods), a climbable "human skin wall" filled with warts, wounds, and blisters, and the entranceway is a nose that you enter. But what we have is NOTHING to what you are describing. I can hardly wait!!!
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These are the places it has been to already:
Japan 1996/97/98 2.945.825 visitors Mannheim October 30, 1997 - March 1, 1998 774.440 visitors Vienna April 30, 1999 - August 31, 1999 543.180 visitors Bale September 4, 1999 - January 5, 2000 597.179 visitors Cologne February 12 - July 31, 2000 1.062.483 visitors Oberhausen August 5, 2000 - January 28, 2001 687.864 visitors Berlin February 10 - September 2, 2001 1.390.073 visitors Brussels September 22, 2001 - March 3, 2002 505.747 visitors London March 21, 2002 - February 9, 2003 840.611 visitors Seoul/Korea April 17, 2002 - March 2, 2003 2.022.653 visitors Stuttgart March 11 - 19, 2003 106.393 visitors Munich Februar 22 - August 17, 2003 860.382 visitors Busan/Korea March 11 - September 21, 2003 1.117.769 visitors Hamburg August 30, 2003 - January 4, 2004 491.833 visitors Singapore November 9, 2003 - March 21, 2004 306.710 visitors Frankfurt/Main January 16 - June 13, 2004 540.034 visitors Taipei/Taiwan April 21 - October 24, 2004 632.560 visitors Kaohsiung/Taiwan November 3 - December 12, 2004 53.186 visitors Los Angeles July 2, 2004 - March 27, 2005 930.106 visitors
07-27-05, 03:55 PM Professor The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago had/has for many years a series of horizontal slices of a human body mounted in display cases lining a stairwell. Made me feel a little creepy even as an adult.
Years before that their medical exhibit displayed a series of human embryos and fetuses in glass jars, which fascinated me as a small child (along with a giant heart you could walk through). I don't know if those jars are still there, but I'm guessing they're no longer p.c. enough to be on display, especially in Chicago which has a large Roman Catholic population.
And there were always the Egyptian mummies to scrutinize through the glass, up close and personal.
A few years ago the media reported that an executed criminal had authorized a full hi-res 3-D digitization of his body, for medical research and education. Somewhere you can access that database.
Morbid curiosity never goes out of fashion.
07-27-05, 04:06 PM Sherasi When I was in nursing school my A&P text book had photos of an entire body sliced down to micro-thin slices. I guess a convict had given premission to have his body used for the benefit of medical science and his body was sliced horizontally in super thin slices and preserved. The look at the tissues were fascinating.
07-27-05, 04:27 PM aminator2002 I went to this exhibit a few weeks ago and it is AMAZING. I haven't learned so much in one day in my whole life. I highly recommend seeing it if you are near Chicago or if it is coming somewhere close to you.
Professor - the human embryos and all the other older exhibits are still in place and I found it really interesting to check them out along side this amazing new exhibit. The new technology really blows those models away.
You really just can't believe how interesting this exhibit is until you go... They not only have full bodies on display but they also have diseased organs, circulatory systems in form, and so many other things. The exhibit goes on and on. The arthritic joints, cancerous organs, and deformities were just as well presented as the full body models.
Everyone I know who has gone has given it rave reviews and no one has been disgusted. It is done in a very professional manner and it is so interesting how this process unfolds the human body for learning.
Another great reason to come to Chicago this summer.
(BTW, the museum also has a great display of the history of video games... $5 gets you in to play unlimited Temptest, Pacman, Space Invaders, etc...over 500 games on display... not a bad way to lighten up after going to the Bodyworlds exhibit)
07-28-05, 02:00 AM Professor Aminator, it does sound interesting and enlightening. I hope to make it to Chicago this fall.
07-28-05, 07:52 AM aminator2002 It's only here till September 3 (I think) so you better hurry!
02-12-06, 01:10 PM juanruiz
quote: Years before that their medical exhibit displayed a series of human embryos and fetuses in glass jars, which fascinated me as a small child (along with a giant heart you could walk through).
Has anyone ever visited the Musée de l'homme in Paris?
05-11-06, 05:31 PM Peteeo It's in the Twin Cities at the St Paul Science Museum. We'll strive to go in Mid June
05-11-06, 06:47 PM juanruiz What are the dates?
05-12-06, 07:28 AM aminator2002 Body worlds in Minnesota May 5th through August through September 4.
I hope you can go juan... it's really a great exhibit. And that goes for anyone else in the general vicinity.
05-12-06, 08:36 AM juanruiz Thanks for the info, ami. I'll be visiting my sister in the Twin Cities sometime this summer, hopefully we can se it.
06-22-06, 06:06 PM juanruiz I went to the exhibition in St. Paul a couple weeks ago, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. The presentation was incredible.
07-31-06, 01:13 PM Georgia85 I went to what I thought was this exhibit this past Saturday. Atlanta is currently showing Bodies: The Exhibition and I thought it was all one and the same. Apparently Body Worlds is the original exhibit developed by Gunther von Hagens who invented the plastination technique that was used to preserve the bodies. The exhibit that is showing currently in the South is a copy cat version that has met with a lot of controversy regarding where the bodies originated. The promoter of this Atlanta event, Dr. Roy Glover, has stated that the bodies were "acquired" from China and not donated which has lead to a lot of controversy over the ethical use of these bodies and whether they may have been obtained from Chinese prisoners shot execution style to "feed an international black market" Who is running man?
That being said, I found the exhibition partly fascinating and partly disturbing. I couldn't help but wonder who the donors were and how they would have felt knowing that hordes of strangers were staring at their inner most parts while commenting about their dirty toe-nails.
I love anatomy and all related to the human body. I don't easily get nauseated and have a high ick factor. However I didn't need to see the entire bodies on display with skin ripped away and just muscles and nerves showing. Especially when you could see flecks of tissue, nerves, and sinew coming off the displays and floating around as dust of any to breath in. Sure it was preserved with a plastic resin but still, who wants to breath it in? What I did enjoy were the specimens, such as bones and organs, that were encased in glass. And at did hold a human brain in my hands...that was interesting and brought back memories of my days disecting a brain...but when all was said and done I couldn't run to wash my hands fast enough.
07-31-06, 05:06 PM Peteeo Our plans for June were delayed but we did make the trip to the St Paul Science Museum this last weekend. It was very interesting and for me it was worth the 200+ mile trip to go see it.
At the Body World display there was a section showing the current consent form addressing the the issue of the hordes viewing the inner most parts of what's left behind. Even a line about possibility of lay persons touching dispite many signs requesting no touching. I'm not personally motevated to donate but those that have seem to be serving society quite well. Many people learning.
I found it interesting the newer plastinates were in much more dramatic poses. The older subjects were more strictly anatomical study objects.
The line from using a body as raw material for an art form vs a body used for education of the general public has been blurred but not yet crossed. The subjects I saw are who we are (ok were) and what we do...did... It was a good show.
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