BODIES...The Exhibition - Leaving Soon

MOSI - Museum of Science and Industry - Tampa "BODIES...The Exhibition" was extended until April 2, 2006. If you are local, you have been hearing about this show a year before it was installed. Controversies over ethics, and legal issues of permits have all quieted down. If you have been planning to see BODIES, you were given an extra month.

Human bodies have been dissected and preserved through a process known as plastination, or polymer preservation. The exhibit is wonderfully planned and artistically arranged to display muscular, nervous, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems. In many cases, the focus is on one element such as the arteries, veins, and capillaries which are amazingly isolated and intact without flesh.

The best deal is to see the show "After Dark". Save about $5 and view the exhibit with adults who hit the show after work or with couples who are pondering their mortality. It was very well attended on the evening that I went, but I hear it is even more crowded during the day. See it at night - Monday - Friday 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Saturday - Sunday 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

I wonder how MOSI will top this amazing run? Hopefully it can import shows that are as sensational as this one in the future, but in the duration it may have gained some new passholders and guests who will visit the rest of the museum, the IMAX theatre, and bring friends.

Photography is not allowed by the public, but news sources with photos online include:
The St. Petersburg Times
National Geographic