http://www.turtlebay.org/exh_bodiesRevealed.php
This exhibit was absolutely fascinating. Eileen and I drove 4 hours down, 4 hours back and paid $4.71 per gallon of gas in California. Bodies was not only well worth the time spent but the $ spent as well. We couldn't take our eyes off the display cases. We found ourselves feeling the outside of our own bodies as we gazed upon the corresponding bones, blood vessels, muscles, and tendons on display trying to imagine that what we were gawking at was actually just beneath the surface of our own skin.
We spent over an hour in the exhibit, wandering through the various rooms of displayed bodies and body parts. (This is where the exhibit starts to sound like a freak show, and in a way it was, but simultaneously stimulating and educational). The worst part for me was the very last room. In this room there was not only a human body sliced up (with the focus on muscles) eerily mirroring slabs of beef, but this was the "hands on" room. (No pun intended; we were actually allowed to hold some body parts, including a hand). At the end of the exhibit, guests were allowed to write comments and pick up a donor card. The donor card asked for your name, address, etc. with boxes to check indicating whether or not you'd be interested in donating your whole body for display or just parts of it.
After the Bodies exhibit, we wandered the rest of the exploratorium. There were several other exhibits to see as the website indicates, and beautiful gardens to wander through. Our entrance fee paid for access to the entire park, so we stayed for quite a while discussing what we had seen and pondering who in the world would actually complete the donor cards??
Here are some more pictures of our day...
2 comments:
Hey girl, sounds like your vacation is off to a good start.Love the bit about Mark sleeping through Shakespeare. Skye's done that to me once or twice, but now he's more into it then me.
I've seen part so of the bodies show. I thought it was way cool. Of course I'm a sick/twisted nurse, so it's glad to hear someone normal say it was cool....Send me the wedding picture link!...Love lisa
There is an exhibit just like this that came here to Dallas called Body Worlds and I couldn't even look at the brochures that Burkely brought home from school, much less even consider going to the exhibit itself. Burke LOVED it, though. He thought it was so cool to see all the insides - he has had plenty of chances to do human dissection in his anatomy classes and I guess he just can't get enough of the insides. Not me - I prefer the outside.
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