Science World's Body Works

Science World Body Works
I can't tell you why looking at plastic preserved actual humans was so massively more engrossing than looking at plastic models, but it was. I was fascinated. The odd part is that they don't even look real. They are saturated with plastic and exposed and there is nothing normal about that. I had to remind myself that these weren't artists' creations. These we actual people. Or at least parts of them.
The two lungs - healthy and unhealthy - side by side were startling. The cross section of an obese person was captivating. But I had imagined them or seen photos. It was the vast array of things that I had never seen before that keep running through my mind.

• The replacement hip - so different than I had imagined.
• The head reduced to skull and veins - the veins suspended three dimensionally, amazingly complicated and yet efficient.
• The appendix - so small, so insignificant looking.
• The brain and all its main nerves separated from the body - made us look like an alien invader from science fiction.

Well worth the trip.