So on Friday (Jan 9th) Alicen, Spencer, Jayson and I went to see this exhibit at the Leonardo on Library center. I was really excited to go see this display because it has been getting great reviews and just getting out of another Anatomy class I wanted to see this new Plastination process, that preserves these bodies. We finally got tickets for the final weekend, we had to wait in line for an hour and a half but it was well worth it. They kept us entertained with a Skeleton on the wall- that you could text message and it would be posted on the wall. They did not allow photography so I got these pics off of the Internet, and KSL.
These two pics above are really cool, the first shows all the blood vessels in the head, I don't know how they got the muscle, skull and other material out of the head to leave the veins but they did. The other is of a fetal baby. It was really interesting to see the development of a baby. They had fetal development from 8 weeks to 36 weeks. To see the little first weeks development was really cool, you could see the littlest toes and fingers and then to see the older babies, it made me just want to hold them. They had developed and now just had to plump up to weight and be born. It was really interesting. Once you entered that room, you could feel a peaceful feeling and a reverence for what was in the room. Way cool!
These pics are just some of what they had. The first is at the beginning. Since the theme was the Heart, they had this body with a heart in the middle. You could see all the veins, vessels and parts of the heart. The second pic is of a body balancing on three balls and has one arm stretched high with his whole abdomen section in tact to where it would fit in his body above his head. His back was open to see that cavity and where it would all fit. The last pic was actually not at the show but we saw pics of it. Its a body holding it skin in its right hand. I wish I could have seen this one in real life, it was really intriguing to me. Just to see the skin off the body.
These two pics above are really cool, the first shows all the blood vessels in the head, I don't know how they got the muscle, skull and other material out of the head to leave the veins but they did. The other is of a fetal baby. It was really interesting to see the development of a baby. They had fetal development from 8 weeks to 36 weeks. To see the little first weeks development was really cool, you could see the littlest toes and fingers and then to see the older babies, it made me just want to hold them. They had developed and now just had to plump up to weight and be born. It was really interesting. Once you entered that room, you could feel a peaceful feeling and a reverence for what was in the room. Way cool!
These pics are just some of what they had. The first is at the beginning. Since the theme was the Heart, they had this body with a heart in the middle. You could see all the veins, vessels and parts of the heart. The second pic is of a body balancing on three balls and has one arm stretched high with his whole abdomen section in tact to where it would fit in his body above his head. His back was open to see that cavity and where it would all fit. The last pic was actually not at the show but we saw pics of it. Its a body holding it skin in its right hand. I wish I could have seen this one in real life, it was really intriguing to me. Just to see the skin off the body.
These two pics show the movements of the body and what muscles flex and relax. The first is of a women or known as "the Archer." She had her skull open on the other side so you could see where her brain would fit. Spencer and Jayson were surprised to see how the bones in the skull had pieces that held the brain and that it had movement but not just floating. The second pic is called "the Javelin." The one they had was not so opened bodied. But it was about the same. All the bodies where shaped so you could see how the body moved and which muscles flex where and in what motion. It was interesting to see what worked together.
This first pic is the same as the top one, except a side shot. Still cool to see the vessels in the head and how it goes all the way around. I forgot to say that this head also still had the brain inside. So we could see the veins around the brain. There is a lot of blood movement up there. The second pic is called "the Hurdler." They had all the muscle movement but on this one they opened the muscle on the back of the head and back to show the littler muscles that work too. Also the brain was cut into sections so that you could see different parts of the brain as well.
The rest of the exhibit had tables with different body parts- like the lungs had regular lungs, lungs with cancer and lungs with emphysema. They had smokers lungs that where pitch black. Yuck! They had a slice of a heavy person, we could see all the fat around the heart, stomach and body. Makes me want to eat healthier and work out. The whole Body Worlds shows the body in a whole new light and that we are all the same below the skin. This display also had animals, a whole camel that was preserved, cat, bird and bull hearts (a bulls heart can have a weight of 15 pounds, a human is only 7-12 ounces. That is huge!). The whole Body World was impressive and enjoyable to walk through. It took us a good 2 hours to look at everything. I was happy we all went. If anyone gets the chance to see it, go through it. Its really great!
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