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Bodies: The Exhibition is an exhibition showcasing human bodies that have been preserved through a process called plastination and dissected to display bodily systems. [1] It opened in Tampa, Florida on August 20, 2005. [2] It is similar to, though not affiliated with, the exhibition Body Worlds (which opened in 1995). The exhibit displays ...
Plastinated human organs, at the Body Worlds exhibition in Poznań, Poland in 2018. Body Worlds exhibitions have received more than 50 million visitors, [8] making them the world's most popular touring attraction. [9] Body Worlds was first presented in Tokyo in 1995, and related exhibitions have since been hosted by more than 50 museums and ...
Pushing the Limits: Encounters with Body Worlds Creator Gunther von Hagens. Heidelberg: Arts & Sciences. ISBN 978-3-937256-07-8. OCLC 61119531. von Hagens, Gunther (2006). Body Worlds The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies. Heidelberg: Institute für Plastination. ISBN 978-3-937256-04-7. OCLC 69257041. Ottone NE et al. (2015).
The exhibition, and Hagens' subsequent exhibitions Body Worlds 2, 3 and 4, had received more than 26 million visitors all over the world as of 2008. [ 16 ] To produce specimens for a Body Worlds exhibition, Hagens employs around 100 people at his laboratory in Guben, Germany.
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Each year, the museum presents 10–12 special exhibitions in its galleries. The museum opened in 1994 with an exhibition of rare early series of 28 watercolors by Georgia O'Keeffe, known as the "Canyon Suite" (1916–1918), that had never been shown publicly as a group.
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This was a professional and personal coup for Sickman: his reputation as a scholar and the collection he had built at the Nelson Gallery made Kansas City one of only four cities the exhibition would visit, after Paris, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. [14] Laurence Sickman retired on January 31, 1977, and was named Director Emeritus and advisor to ...