There is NO PHOTOGRAPHY allowed, which naturally troubled me as a blog addict, so even though these photos from the internet aren't very good it gives you and idea of what it's all about. A German doctor invented a process called 'plastination' where he takes real donated bodies and preserves them by transforming them into a form of plastic.
Seeing the inside of our bodies in all different positions was fascinating. If you have ever taken anatomy or even human biology you would totally dig this exhibit. One of my favorite exhibits was the Early Stages of Pregnancy. There was a set of 9 or ten glass cylindars each containing an embryo at a different week between week 3 and week 9. They were naturally very difficult to see because they were so small, but it was awe inspiring to see the fingers, toes, spinal column and eyes on an embryo only 9 weeks old and less than 1/2 inch long.
Another of my favorites was a man with one hand in the air holding all of his internal organs in the exact positions they are found inside our bodies. His back was open and lifted so you could see the cavity inside.
Here are a few things I took away from the experience:
1. Plastinated bodies must need to be preserved in high temperatures because it was somewhere around 117 degrees in there and we were all DYING!
2. People will take an infant and breastfeed ANYWHERE!
3. Call me naive but it is impossible for me to imagine how anyone could look at these bodies and not be convinced that we were created by an all-knowing perfect God. It was such a testament to me of the perfection of His creation.
4. While I'm certainly not disputing his genius, I think this Gunther Von Haggen (the German doctor) has to be a little twisted.
5. The exhibit closes in January so make time to see it before it's gone!
7 comments:
Im gald you got to go! We went to the one in LV a couple of years ago.
So where is this place? My husband would be in heaven!!
So Dj and I went to the one here in Vegas and after like 3 or 4 bodies I turned to him and said, "don't they all look Asian." He looked at me crazy, laughed and said "no", disgusted I would even suggest so. Sure enough I saw on the news that they were IN FACT Asian and it was causing quite the controversy. I was just glad to be right!
How facinating! We love stuff like that. Alan and I went to the Titanic exhibit in Salt Lake a few years ago and we were pretty baffled. We will have to check it out!
Rich went to this to get extra credit in his biology class. He thought it was pretty neat too.
We have been wanting to get to SLC to see the exhibit! I absolutely agree with you that the perfection of the body is such a miracle and a great example of the Lord's hand in our lives. We placed a password on our blog so e-mail me and I will send you out an invitation. Have a Happy Thanksgiving and hopefully we will see you sometime over the holidays.
Love, Stacey
stacey.kearns@mountainstarhealth.com
I went and saw the exhibit a few months ago and it was great! Of course I was with 100 annoying teenagers, but I LOVED it! Our bodies are pretty amazing.
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