Plastination!

Gunther von Hagens & Body Worlds 3 is showing at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and I had a chance to check it out yesterday. Absolutely amazing. I think the thing that struck me the most was the technical skill that it takes to do a dissection this clean. I am in no way a biology nut but looking at these bodies you have to remind yourself that you are looking at a person that had a name, parents, children maybe, and now they are right here before you. True they are dead, but somehow still alive.

Von Hagens was able to perfect his technique of preserving bodies through a process called plastination and then dissecting them with incredible skill. Many of the bodies have different perspectives be it circulatory, muscular, reproductive, or nervous system. You just have to see it to have an full appreciation no matter how much you read about it. Completely worth the time.