The following is copied from the press center.
"You’ll never look at the human body the same way again.
The exhibition features 200 authentic human specimens, including entire bodies, individual organs and transparent body slices that have been preserved through the process of Plastination, a technique that replaces bodily fluids and fat with reactive plastics.
BODY WORLDS 3 offers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see and understand our own physiology and health and to gain new appreciation and respect for whatit means to be human."
My feelings?
1. It feels like that you just had a class of anatomy. You see each piece of the muscles, each part of the body including the inside of the brain, the inner organs, the actual nerves, the bones, the joints, all inside out.
2. It gave you a strong sense of treasuing your body and health.
One display shows the actual lung of a smoker, which is blackened compared to the normal lung. At the exit, you see a box with a clear glass cover. On top of the box, there is a sign that reads: I quit. Inside the box, there are so many boxes of cigaret, which strongly indicates that the visitors who smoke get the sense of harmness of smoking.
There are other displays that show the diseased parts, such as the cervix with turmor, the shrinked brain with Parkinson's disease, the joints with osteoporosis, the stomach with ulcer,etc.
When it tells you how the liver functions to dissolve harmful substances from the digestive system, you immediately think that you only want to take healthy food.
3.It helps you to transcend the understanding of death. On the walls, there are some quotations from the philosophers about death. It carries you away to the deep wisdom world thinking about birth and death of a human being.
4. It helps you to know the history of the anatomy. The history of preserving the human body. Thanks to this technology devised in 1977 of plastination, which completely stops the decay of human body, we can now view the detailed pieces of human body, inside and out!
5. I was so horrified by how in Renaissance time, there were theaters dedicating to dissecting dead human bodies and they were open to the general public during the operation!
6. It introduced you some history of artists in Renaissance time, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who devoted wholeheartedly into anatomy and dissecting human bodies to learn the actual structure of human beings. This evidently was one of the reasons that led to the supereme quality of the art in their works.
7. It helped me in vidualization on drawings of human beings. Previously, my art teacher drew the bones of a head, I was just trying to memorize them. Now, it is a real thing diaplaying there, I now have more of the concepts on bones and muscles and the shapes.
