Body Worlds II, San Jose CA

We just got back from San Jose and the exhibition was fascinating! The bodies are all human specimens but they don’t look ‘real’ due to preservation. Almost like a plastic mold but when you study it close up you really can tell that it used to be a real person. Kinda creepy as well but none the less interesting. Photography was not allowed but I didn’t know until some one told me this. So I only have a few photos to share.

If you around San Jose, CA this week it’s worth to pay the Tech a visit!

To achieve the preservation plastination is applied. Plastination is a technique used in anatomy to preserve bodies or body parts. The water and fat are replaced by certain plastics, yielding specimens that can be touched, do not smell or decay, and even retain most microscopic properties of the original sample. More about Body Worlds can be found here