BODY WORLDS
German scientist Gunther von Hagens created the Body Worlds show and developed the preservation technique used to preserve the human bodies, called "plastination". He intends the exhibits to teach people about human skeletal... [more]
German scientist Gunther von Hagens created the Body Worlds show and developed the preservation technique used to preserve the human bodies, called "plastination". He intends the exhibits to teach people about human skeletal, cardiovascular and the treatment of diseases.
The Body Worlds exhibit has been on display in Tokyo, San Jose California, and now Manchester.
Professor Gunter Von Hagens poses next to one of his anatomical specimens playing football at the launch of his latest exhibition BODY WORLDS 4 at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry on February 21, 2008, Manchester, England. Since its debut in Tokyo in 1996, the show has sparked controversy and curiosity. German scientist Gunther von Hagens, who created the show and developed the preservation technique used to preserve the bodies, called "plastination", intends the exhibits to teach people about human skeletal, cardiovascular and the treatment of diseases.(Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Europe)
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Is it respectful to preserve human bodies and put them on display in a museum?
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Yes, it's very educational and advances people's appreciation for the human body
Yes, it's very educational and advances people's appreciation for the human body
Our family has been fortunate to view and experience the Body Worlds Exhibit two times! Once in Florida, which was incredible and then here in Dallas!
Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS exhibits are the first public anatomical exhibitions of real human plastinates. They have been on display worldwide for ten years and so far, nearly 25 million visitors have viewed the exhibits at venues in cities across Asia, Europe, the United States and Canada. The exceptional success of the exhibits is to...
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Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS, the traveling anatomical exhibitions of donor bodies welcomes its 25th million visitor this week.
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SOMERS -- The University of Wisconsin-Parkside Biology/Pre-Health Departments have a limited number of seats available for a field trip to the “Body Worlds” exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum.
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The "Body Worlds" exhibit at Milwaukee Public Museum is on track to net the museum about $2 million - double earlier estimates - museum President Dan Finley said Wednesday.
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Milwaukee Public Museum president Dan Finley says the "Body Worlds" exhibit could net about $2 million for the financially troubled institution.
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German police and customs officials have searched facilities where corpses for the Body Worlds shows are preserved on suspicion that foreign workers were illegally employed there, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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Their bodies are peeled down - literally - to the bone. And since January, many Milwaukeeans have stopped by the Milwaukee Public Museum to see the inner workings of what were once real, live people.
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