A look inside the human body at the science museum
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If you are curious to scrutinize at close quarters what's inside the human body, then here's the perfect opportunity for you. Body Worlds, a traveling museum, gives visitors an unprecedented look inside the human body courtesy of a cadre of odorless, skinless corpses. The corpses were not dug from graves or stolen from mortuaries. They were donated by registered body donors. Since the first show was held in 1995 by the science museum, more than 32 million visitors worldwide have seen it.
About 12,000 visitors were apparently so impressed by what they saw they have signed donor consent forms to donate their bodies to the German medical institute that develops the museum exhibits. It's learned that 62 of them are from Illinois and 10 are from Chicago.
Titled "Body Worlds & The Cycle of Life", the show opens Friday at the Museum of Science and Industry, the first American museum to display the show. Ticket pre-sales have been brisk, and the last two exhibits were among the science museum's most popular attractions, bringing in 1.3 million visitors.