I thought this would be an exhibit telling about how the human body functions. Instead, I found it was an anatomy exhibit of real human bodies. Through a "plastination" process, they were able to preserve these bodies so that they could display the muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments, and nerves independent of each other. It was a little unnerving to see muscular forms posed in such actions as ice skating, skate boarding, dancing, and doing gymnastics, but when I thought about the alternative; stiff corpses standing at attention, I realized the benefit to displaying them in real action poses. Here are a few pictures to show you a little of what we saw. (p.s. although our youngest wasn't fond of this display, we did spend a good long time in the Tech museum, so he had fun in the long run. :)
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yup seen it on tv, missed it when it was near me. the first body that was done like that i beleive was a prisoner sentenced to death that left his body for scientific study, i know the orginal use of this was to preserve almost perfect bodies in order for medical teaching and learning, later he adopted it towards art/learning, i think he has a guy on a horse real horse real guy done with that plastic stuff.
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