The Exhibition showcases 13 whole-body specimens and more than 260 organs and partial body specimens. These real human bodies have been meticulously dissected, preserved through an innovative process.

Mar 10, 2025 · Using an innovative preservation process, the Exhibition showcases real, full-bodies and organs, providing a detailed, three-dimensional vision of the human form rarely seen outside of an anatomy lab.

Aug 11, 2006 · For two years now, exhibitions of human cadavers have been traveling the country, shown in science museums and other spaces. The shows, featuring corpses that have been preserved and solidified...

Body Worlds (German title: Körperwelten) is a traveling exposition of dissected human bodies, animals, and other anatomical structures of the body that have been preserved through the process of plastination.

Apr 29, 2020 · In an interview with National Public Radio’s All Things Considered entitled “Cadaver Exhibits Are Part Science, Part Sideshow,” Body Worlds creator Gunther von Hagens discussed his new millennium plans for a future dead body exhibition.

Jul 2, 2018 · Post-mortem anatomy classes were once required at illustrious art schools such as the Florentine Academy of Art and the Parisian École des Beaux-Arts, thanks to pioneers such as Leonardo, who demonstrated the value of the practice.

Aug 5, 2015 · Human body donation may advance scientific efforts or medical understanding, but in the view of artists Christine Borland and Brody Condon, studying cadavers could also be a tool for artistic...

Feb 24, 2006 · The controversial but wildly popular Body Worlds reveals the human body inside and out, in poses that are at once natural and bizarre.

Nov 28, 2011 · The double-decker cadaver tomb of Bishop Richard Fleming, founder of Lincoln College Oxford, is a common style with a freshly dead effigy on top, decaying corpse on the bottom.

Jan 21, 1998 · Use the story of Germany's cadaver art to help your neighbors understand why the denigration of the human body is wrong. Because God took on human form, the human body is sacred—and it ought to be treated that way.