This was intense, interesting, and very creepy. At the University of Texas football stadium, the exhibit is housed on the 5th floor. Be prepared when you go in! The exhibition travels, so look for it in your closest city. No cameras were allowed, so no pics this time.
There are several rooms, each devoted to a major organ system (e.g., circulatory, digestion, nervous, etc.) Each room contains at least one dissected human, preserved by drying and coating with silicone rubber. The dissections are meticulous and fully revealing. They are also very disturbing.
All the bodies are Chinese, as the dissections were done in China by medical students. The bodies are posed in various ways, as if they were involved in living. For example, one is posed in the Pele position (upside down, kicking a soccer ball over its head). One body stands upright, with its front surface skin draped over its arm. Someone commented on the wispy chin hairs still being in place.
Despite being a bit pricey, the exhibit was very well attended by people of all ages. Most of the comments as people left the exhibit seemed to indicate that it was interesting to them.
I may have read or heard about this travelling exhibit, but can certainly imagine it would be very revealing (to say the least) and a bit disturbing at the same time. I have to admit too that I am sort of relieved that no cameras were allowed cause your description was informative enough for me.
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