Last night I had the chance to go to the Mosi and see the BodyWorlds exhibit, and I thought the experience was worthy of blogging. I don’t know if you guys got to see the Bodies exhibit when it was here a few years ago but I missed it then and this was my first visit. It was absolutely incredible. All of the organs and full bodies in the exhibit are real people that have undergone the process of plastination after their death. In a nut shell plastination is a very in depth process of replacing all of the fluids in the body with a polymer. The actual body tissues can then be eaten away by chemicals and a plastic version of the exact shapes of the tissues are left perfectly intact. Slightly weird at first to look at, the bodies are SO REAL looking!! Even the eye lashes are just as they were on the real person’s face. Seeing each and every vain within the body and the exact position of the heart as it rests inside the chest is an inspiring experience. You should all go check it out of you have not already. It may even be a good place to sit with a sketchbook.
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