The Deal: Real human bodies on display at Body Worlds, the new anatomy exhibit at Discovery Place.
This is intense. It’s like Biology class, except way more hardcore. Basically, picture a body without its skin, with all (yes, ALL) of its inside parts expertly preserved. Oh, I should mention there’s a horse, too.
The Good: You just don’t see inside-out bodies every day. This exhibit gives you the chance to discover what everything really looks like in there — nothing like a diagram in your 9th grade textbook. In addition to healthy organs, you’ll see what diseased ones look like too — tumored ovaries, a black lung and breast cancer. There is a section that displays fetuses at different stages of a pregnancy — one of which is still inside the mother.
The Bad: It’s hard to forget that they’re all real people and just check everything out and try to learn something. I had to spend some time just getting used to being around, well … fleshless corpses. It comes in time.
The Verdict: Definitely check it out, especially if you like science. Or, if you don’t — if you’re just really, really weird.
Exhibit runs through Oct. 28
www.bodyworlds.com | www.discoveryplace.org
— Erin Sutton
This article appears in Jun 13-19, 2007.
