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BODY WORLDS, the world famous exhibition featuring anatomical
and whole body specimens, is open in London between March 23rd
and September 29th at The Atlantis Gallery at The Old Truman
Brewery in London's Brick Lane.
BODY WORLDS or so far known as KÖRPERWELTEN
is an anatomical exhibition of real human bodies that provides
unique insights into the healthy and diseased human body.
Individual organs are arranged according to area in order
to learn more about their functions and typical diseases.
The exhibition also includes the opportunity to study individual,
complex, anatomical structures in whole-body and cross section
specimens. All of the bodies belonged to people who declared
during their lives that their bodies should be made available
after their deaths for the educational benefit of medical
professionals and non-professionals alike. The specimens are
permanently preserved by plastination - an impregnation technique
carried out in a vacuum where the body tissue is completely
saturated with special plastics and invented by the creator
of the exhibition, Prof. Gunther von Hagens MD. Not only does
plastination allow the permanent preservation of the specimen,
it also allows entirely new forms of anatomical display, since
the plastics lend a high degree of rigidity to the tissue.
Anatomically prepared whole bodies, for instance, can now
be displayed in upright, lifelike poses. Even isolated anatomical
structures (the nervous and circulatory systems for instance)
can be exhibited in a way hitherto unseen. The BODY WORLDS
exhibition is unique.
"I have seen the exhibition
now for the second time. It profoundly changed my attitude
towards my own body, towards life and death. I feel myself
in a different way now, more intensely, and I appreciate life
much more. This exhibition evokes change, this alone makes
it so important."
O. Schreiner, 2000
OPENING TIMES
Daily from March 23, 2002
to Febuary 9, 2003 - also open on Sundays and holidays -
from 9 am to 9 pm (last admission)
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