Bodies The Exhibit

I had heard both good and bad, but really, I found it very interesting and educational.

In Seattle, where I saw it, it is at 800 Pike and very worth experiencing!

This exhibition was fantastic! I got a bit annoyed at a few things though – the price (expensive, and no student discounts, which admittedly is common in this country), the fact that you couldn’t take a camera in, a backpack, drinking water etc. etc., and yet they took your photo without asking for consent in the hope of selling it to you later, and the fact that one of the plaques said that macrophages produce antibodies, which is wrong. But, I’ll stop complaining now, because it really was clever, especially (as the entry below says) the technique they used showed the arteries.

I was an AP Bio student when I saw this. It gave great descriptions of all the organs and everything was so well preserved—it was really amazing. There was a section of it where they filled the blood vessels with the latex to preserve it, and then got rid of the rest of the body so you just saw this body made of little red and blue vessels. They sliced the bodies in such interesting ways it never really got boring. They showed fetus progression, like many places do, but then they also showed the fetus inside a woman. In addition to the regular body parts, it compared diseased ones to normal ones. They also added a cute touch by putting the bodies in various positions, such as running, to show different muscles.

If you want to learn about human anatomy, this is perfect.