Probably the biggest question about this exhibit is: Real People? how did they do that? For the most part All the bodies on exhibit were. They donated their bodies and they were preserved through a process called plastizination. Their skin is gone and you can see their muscles, tendons, eyeballs, bones, sometimes their brains or other internal organs depending on how they're preserved. There were tons of body parts: hands, legs, joints, kidneys, livers, intestines, eyeballs, genitals, stomachs, tongues, lungs, hearts...some were healthy looking. Some were horribly diseased. (black lungs, cysts in kidneys, swollen hearts) One cool display that made me say "how'd they do that?" showed a chicken, a goat and an arm just with their blood vessels. Whole bodies were posed: the ponderer (thinker) drawer man (insides pulled out so you could see inside) hitting a baseball, kicking a soccer ball, ice skating, yoga, diving, standing sliced vertically into a dozen or more strips. There was a pregnant woman and fetus' from several different stages of development. There were two boys looking at the skeleton of a fetus and the one said to the other "It looks like a. . . a. . . alien!" I thought he was right about that. They're like aliens after their born too! So, how do you say VERY COOL in a way that helps you understand that I enjoyed this?!
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