More than 100,000 curious visitors each year flock to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, which dates back to 1849. It was ...

Plastination of human bodies is an expensive and time-consuming process, according to the Institute of Plastination, a German firm that operates the human anatomy exhibitor Body Worlds.

Events A new exhibit featuring preserved human bodies is making its North American debut in Boston "Body Worlds: Anatomy of Happiness" is the latest traveling exhibit from Gunther von Hagens.

Body Worlds is aimed at teaching the effects of healthy and unhealthy lifestyles. It features the remains of human cadavers, opened up from the inside out, and frozen in time for the world to see. The ...

"Body Worlds: Vital" will open Feb. 15 at The Franklin Institute. The 16,000 square foot exhibition will feature a collection ...

The Franklin Institute’s new “Body Worlds: Vital” exhibit features 150 real human specimens — including 20 whole-body plastinates — to explore the human condition.

‘Body Worlds: Vital‘ officially returned to the Franklin Institute last weekend. The 16,000 square foot groundbreaking showcase features a collection of real human specimens—including 20 ...

In the past, the Franklin Insitute hosted three iterations of BODY WORLDS, including the East Coast debut of the original exhibit in 2005, which drew record-breaking crowds of over 600,000 visitors.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A new exhibit at the Da Vinci Science Center will allow visitors to explore the human body in a whole new way. "We are actually looking at real organs and real bones that came ...

The success of Body Worlds prompted copycat exhibitions, such as the Real Bodies exhibit, which raised concerns when it visited Sydney in 2018. Von Hagens, 80, created his plastination process in ...