Thursday, December 7, 2006
Fair Park museum to host exhibit of human bodies
Popular touring display draws 20 million visitors worldwide
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Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds
- Where: Museum of Nature & Science, 3535 Grand Avenue, Dallas
- Cost: Not available
- Age limit: Not available
Starting Saturday, visitors to Dallas' Museum of Nature & Science will be treated to a display of organs within "plastinated" human bodies, to include such items of interest as lungs belonging to both smokers and non-smokers. I wonder what the difference will be?
The exhibit, titled "Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies", has recently set up shop at museums in Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia, and has drawn enormous crowds of curious onlookers at all venues. The Dallas Museum is extending its hours to accommodate the expected overflow.
While no letters protesting the event have turned up locally, a pharmacist in Boston considers the showing a violation of human rights and says that human bodies should be treated with more dignity. Boston - it figures.
The exhibit is sure to have something for - if not from - everybody.
Read more here.
Posted by John
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