The DC Traveler

I really enjoyed the preserved bodies exhibit and so did close to 300,000 other visitors to Body Worlds 2, at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
The exhibit is closing on September 1st, 2008, so here’s you last chance to experience the inner workings of the human body.
For the final weeks, the hours are extended from 9:00 am, until 9:00 p.m. daily.
Body Worlds 2 Maryland Science Center 601 Light Street, at the Inner Harbor Baltimore, MD 21230 (map it)
Dates and Times – Daily 9:00 a.m. – …read more

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In April, I wrote about the controversial plastination human body exhibit here in Washington, DC, Bodies – the Exhibition.  The major controversy surrounding the exhibit were reports of questionable sourcing of Chinese bodies, for use in the preserved and skinless anatomical exhibit.  The claims were that many of the bodies were used in Bodies – the Exhibition were used without the legal consent of the deceased or their family.
A second competing and potentially less controversial exhibit, BODY WORLDS 2, now on display at the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, has publicly stated that all bodies used in its …read more

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