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'Bodies' exhibition offers close-up look at the human machine
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Although "Bodies: The Exhibition" has caused some controversy, there's still nothing like it, no other place in where a person can see the human machine in all its complexity and detail so up-close.
"Your body is the only thing that you carry with you from the time you are born until the time you take your very last breath, but it's amazing how little we know about it," said Dr. Roy Glover, chief medical director for the exhibit, which opens today at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
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"Bodies" features 15 whole-body specimens in a variety of dynamic poses, and over 250 body segments in nine themed galleries.
"This exhibition is a marvelous way for adults and children to be more in tune with their body and to take better care of it," Glover said. "There are people who don't think it's appropriate to display real human bodies like this, but the service to the living (to learn about) how we take care of our bodies, is more important."
Glover said that in earlier stops for this touring exhibition, the staff would have to discard dozens of packs of cigarettes every day in the gallery devoted to the respiratory system.
"People began to understand more completely why smoking is harmful to your lungs and your heart," he said.
Running concurrently with "Bodies" is the OmniMax film "The Human Body," which incorporates computer graphics with real-life images to tell the story of a day in the life of the human body.
Tickets to the exhibition are sold on a timed basis and will have a special children's audio tour available.
How to go
WHAT: "Bodies: The Exhibition"
WHERE: Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, 1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati
WHEN: Through Sept. 1
COST: $23 adults; $19 seniors; $15 children, ticket combinations available
MORE INFO: (513) 287-7000