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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 ...
A competing exhibition, Bodies: The Exhibition, openly sources its bodies from "unclaimed bodies" in China, which can include executed prisoners. [2] In addition to temporary traveling exhibitions, permanent Body Worlds exhibits exists in Berlin, Amsterdam, Heidelberg, Guben, and San Jose, CA. [4]
Bodies: The Exhibition became the primary money maker for the firm with 19 separate human anatomy exhibitions at 33 venues while the Titanic was on exhibit at 15 locations in 2009. [33] In 2009 the company reported that 19% of its revenue came from Titanic and 67% from Bodies: The Exhibition with the rest among its other exhibitions. [3]
The discovery this month of six human bodies and dozens of sets of cremated remains stored illegally in a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse has led to a daunting task: to reunite them with their ...
In 1977, the year of its opening, the museum received media attention due to a photograph by Eddie Adams of the "Changing Bodies" exhibit, which he photographed at Topanga Canyon against the backdrop of the Santa Monica Mountains. [8] The picture appeared in more than a hundred newspapers and was featured in Associated Press' Yearbook 1977.
Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibitions are the original, precedent-setting public anatomical exhibitions of real human bodies, and the only anatomical exhibits that use donated bodies, willed by donors to the Institute for Plastination for the express purpose of serving the Body Worlds mission to educate the public about health and anatomy.
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The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office, led by Sgt Michael Warrick, reported the discovery of the bodies, four of which were burned, near Adelanto, about 60 miles (96.5km) northeast of Los ...