The Controversial Body Exhibition

These Body Exhibitions--which feature actual human specimens--allow people of all ages access to sights and knowledge normally reserved only for medical professionals. Take the opportunity to peer inside yourself, to better understand how your elaborate and fascinating body works, and how you can become a more informed participant in your own health care.The museum where the Body Exhibition take place is set up so that one starts at the skeletal system, and more layers (muscular, nervous, circulatory, digestive, respiratory, urinary and reproductive systems; as well as fetal development and the treated body) are added in successive rooms. Containing about twenty bodies in total, each Body Exhibition uses real human bodies that have been preserved permanently by a process called "polymer preservation" so that they will not decay.

For many these exhibition may be useful because they have the chance to learn the body the way it is, not from a book, but for others this Body Exhibition remain a controversial subject for showcasing preserved human bodies dissected to display bodily systems.