Body Worlds Reviews

Yesterday, my flatmate and I decided to visit the latest Body Worlds (BW) exhibition, the Mirror of Time, at London's O2 Arena. BW sells itself as a lesson in anatomy using real bodies. It consists of 200 specimens, ranging from full bodies, body parts, and a few animal bodies thrown in for good measure. Now... I am a fairly squeamish person - ...  Read the complete review

My daughter was studying anatomy in art and has a lot of interest in the human body so when her art teacher told her about Gunther Von Hagen's body world display, she really wanted to go. Gunther Von Hagen is a polish anatomist who invented plastination to preserve and observe dead bodies of humans and animals. He is now 64 and despite ...  Read the complete review

I'm training as a massage therapist, and I heard about Body Worlds and thought that it would be good for me to go. My expectations were exceeded, I went with my Mum who enjoyed it aswell, as a good day out. I learnt loads and found that the audio was most helpful. I was worried about seeing dead bodies, but it wasnt gory at ...  Read the complete review

I spent most of the last week in Burnley, near Manchester, visiting one of my relatives and for a day out her son took us to see the Body Worlds 4 exhibition at Manchester Science Museum. The difficulty with this is although it was at the museum it's a short term exhibit and the only real part of the museum we visited, so I can't review the actual ...  Read the complete review

Where does the line between art and a science fall? Can the grotesque be beautiful? And why has someone bothered plasticizing hundreds of corpses? These are just a few of the questions that enter you mind whilst visiting the controversial and intriguing 'Korpenwelten'or 'Body Worlds' exhibition. Created with typical German ...  Read the complete review

The 'Body Worlds' exhibition at the Atlantis Gallery in the East End of London has attracted a great deal of controversy, even prompting questions to be asked in the House of Commons. Essentially, it is an exhibition of dead bodies and organs, superficially presented in the name of art. The bodies and body parts have been preserved using a ...  Read the complete review