I saw dead people…

bodieshumanthinkerI had a blind date on Saturday night.  Not in the sense that I didn’t know who I was going with…but instead I didn’t know where I was going.  The surprise?  Dead people!

Annika took me to go see the Bodies Human exhibit…real people who have been made plastic by a process called plastination.  I have to say, it’s pretty cool to be able to look inside the human body and see all the bits and pieces.

I do have a few comments about the exhibit.  It’s not big enough!  The site says it will take you 1-2 hours to see everything.  I’m calling bullshit on that.  30-45 minutes unless it’s busy or you are really taking your time.  I also think their website is a little misleading saying there are 100 bodies on exhibit.  There are about 15 full bodies…but they must be counting each ‘piece’ of a body.  So that heart sitting on display counts as a body.

Don’t get me wrong…it was totally worth going.  I missed a similiar exhibit of plastination a couple of years ago and I’m thrilled I got the chance to finally see it.  If you want to take a look at a few of the photos I snapped, check out the gallery.

Posted: February 24th, 2009
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