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Rigor Mortis
Posted December 8, 2005
The Science Museum has landed the infamous Body Worlds Exhibit, an anatomical display of real human bodies that have gone through a preservation process known as plastination. After recent openings in science museums in Toronto and Philadelphia, the exhibit opens May 5 in St. Paul with over 200 specimens.
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8 Comments:
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»» Submitted by »»» rex at 11:33 PM on December 8
I saw this in Chicago and it completely blew me away.
»» Submitted by chuck t at 10:44 AM on December 9
Awesome! I've been reading about this for what seems like years and I can't wait to see it.
»» Submitted by Kevin from Minneapolis at 11:05 AM on December 9
The first time I heard about this exhibit was something like eight years ago. The exhibit had opened in Germany, and it took me several weeks to find the right contact to get a press copy of the exhibit catalogue. I still have it, and it's one of those craziest books I own.
»» Submitted by »»» rex at 11:32 AM on December 9
I saw it in Philadelphia a couple weeks ago. Very cool and not nearly as gross as I thought it might be.
»» Submitted by Lindsey at 12:25 PM on December 9
I saw the exhibit when it was in Berlin several years ago. The exhibit's name in German was much creepier-sounding: "Körperwelten." It was extremely interesting, but a little weird because formerly living things are now just plain things.
»» Submitted by Kate at 4:10 PM on December 9
I also saw this in Chicago and had mixed feelings. I know these people volunteered their corpses ahead of time for the cause, but I can't help wondering who they were, and the pregnant woman with fetus strikes me as especially sad. Any science I picked up from looking at it has since evaporated of course...
Many years ago, while waiting for a friend to finish his finals at the University of Chicago, I wandered over to the Museum of Science and Industry.
The most amazing display they had were two human corpses sliced into about one inch sections, (one vertically and one horizontally), and mounted between plates of glass with some preservative. They were then hung in racks so they could be paged through like books.
It was morbidly fascinating, especially when the finger tips showed up floating off to the sides of the corpus, but you couldn't help wondering who the two people had been, (both men as I recall).
Stranger yet was starting to think about who the people were that had cut the bodies into slices, (did they slightly freeze them first to make it easier, like I do with bonesless chicken breasts?), and positioned the slabs and pieces onto the slides.
»» Submitted by »»» srhcb at 12:57 PM on December 10
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