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By Emily

August 11th, 2011

bodies revealedNow through September 18th, there’s an exhibit at the imagination station called bodies revealed. The exhibit is traveling, so if you can’t get to Toledo to the imagination station before September 18th, be sure to check and see if it’s coming closer to your home town. I want to start off by saying that this blog post won’t even begin to do justice for the bodies revealed exhibit. I’m not a “science girl” and I’ve struggled with writing this part of the post. But, the bodies revealed exhibit is really neat, and if you have a few hours to spend reading the explanations near the individual body parts you can learn a lot. We had a limited amount of time but it would have been easy to lose a few hours checking it out. In case you haven’t heard about it, It’s a traveling exhibit that features preserved portions of real human bodies that were donated to science. They are all Chinese people and were assembled in china. I haven’t read how long it took, but there are various groups that were assembled, each group showing a different system of the body. Everything is real except for the eyes which were changed out for fake ones because human eyes get cloudy looking after death. Also, certain portions of the bodies were dyed to make them stand out. For example, to highlight the muscular system, they might use red dye to show all the muscles. However, other than that the exhibit features a look into what our bodies truly look like. Some of the bodies were unhealthy and had disease which you can see when you compare that persons body to another. For example, there were healthy lungs and unhealthy (really black) lungs. The exhibit would be great for science classes or even college students with an interest in science. Once again, I’m not a science girl so I’m not doing the exhibit justice but even if you aren’t a science person you should check out bodies revealed if you get a chance, it’s a unique experience to learn about and really see what our bodies are like.

Disclaimer – We were able to tour the bodies revealed exhibit as compensation for this post. No other form of compensation was offered or accepted.

This post currently has 5 responses.

  • librarypat

    I read about this process several years ago. I was hoping this exhibit was on tour, but I could not find a schedule. There are three exhibits available in the US, none close enough to attend.

  • Crystal

    Although i haven’t visited the exhibit,i think it looks very interesting!

  • I saw a similar exhibit (don’t think it had the same name) over a year ago in WI – it was fascinating!

  • Heather!

    Hey, check out your renovations! Love the new look for your blog!

    I actually saw this exhibit two years ago in Dublin. I’d wanted to see it for a few years since it first opened, so I was really excited to have the chance. It is absolutely AMAZING to learn how it was made! I have to say, though, I was ever so slightly disappointed in the exhibit. It was great, and maybe it was just that I had wanted to see it for so long that my expectations were too high, but I wasn’t moved in the way that I thought I’d be. I figured I would leave the museum and embark on a new and HEALTHFUL way of life, after having seen the effects of various bad habits (smoking, bad diet, etc.). Unfortunately, that just hasn’t been true. Really, I was more amazed by the actual process of ‘plasticizing’ the bodies than the bodies themselves.

    It’s definitely worth seeing. Just don’t expect TOO much. 🙂

  • Erin Stuart

    I saw the Imagination Station – Toledo exhibit yesterday. Had I not already seen this exhibit 3 years ago in San Diego, perhaps, I wouldn’t have been SO disappointed. It was maybe 1/4 of the size of the exhibit that I saw in California. Maybe the IS doesn’t have enough room for the whole exhibit?? I was just shocked at the really boring choices…our kids are 10 and 13 and while they were interested at first, the exhibit became very repetitive…not worth $6 (member price) a piece, at all.