Monday, August 25, 2008

Body Worlds 3






We went to see Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds 3, The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies. If you can look past the fact that these are real dead bodies and organs that were put through the ringer and lots of crazy chemicals to be plastinated and immortalized internationally, you'll see the beauty, art and science behind the intricacies of the human body. It was amazing and not at all disturbing. Of course, if you ask d, he would disagree. The most fascinating part was the series of embryos as well as the fetuses. It's amazing that von Hagens was able to collect a series of chronologically developing humans. Many many people must have donated their bodies to plastination science. At the end, they had a plastinated giraffe, which was monstrous as well as an ostrich. Imagine a plastinated Noah's Ark!
My ratings on a scale of 1-10:
Fascination: 10.
Cost: 7. Not the cheapest way to spend a Saturday afternoon. But you never know when you'll get the chance to see cadavers in such a tasteful way again.

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