"Body Worlds"...the most amazing exhibit!!

[ICURNGUY]

I made a special 3 hr. trip from Austin to Houston Thursday to the Houston Museum of Natural History. It was the last week of Dr. Gunther Von Hagen's exhibit of "real" human specimens. This was the most incredible and amazing exhibit I have ever experienced. If anyone has or has not taken any anatomy classes, this will open your eyes and your mind to the complexity of the human body. A friend of mine that went is agnostic and he even said that this "makes you start to beleive". I did not expect so many specimens to be on display. There was one with a rider on a horse and the rider was holding (his) own brain in one hand and the horses in the other! I didn't know that this was an ongoing creation also. Some of the specimens were dated 2006. I also liked the fact that there were no names and history so as not to appear to be a "cemetery". People have donated their bodys for science and a process of "plastination" for display and study of anatomy students. It is leaving houston Sep. 4, and I have no idea where it will be going, or if it will be coming back to the U.S. I got a couple of DVDs with the process of plastination and the exhibit from its origin in Germany. The other DVD is called "Live Autopsy", and Dr. Von Hagen disects specimens into their different systems. So amazing.

If anyone else has been able to experience this exhibit please share your opinions and thoughts. Some of my friends think that it is a bit morbid. I don't agree, but I can see what they are thinking. I also saw children there, I don't agree with that especially when you look at the eyes of the specimens, and you can tell that they had green or blue eyes. Post mortem you can still see in their eyes. That is what made this seem so "real".

[coley28]

I was so excited to see that the Body Worlds exhibit is in Boston now- I've been wanting to see it since it first came to the States a few years back. Now I just have to convince my husband to drive us down (I HATE driving into Boston!)

Take the T! I always drive into Revere and park and take the T. So much easier. I am definitely going to take a trip down there...now I just have to convince my boyfriend to go with me :wink2: