RI: Real Human Bodies Teach You About Your Body Inside and Out

Providence, RI Exit 22ABC: Experience your body like never before at the Body Worlds Vital traveling exhibition, seen by over 40 million visitors around the globe. and now on display at the Providence Museum Gallery at the Rhode Island Convention Center.body-works-vital-ri

Featuring authentic human bodies, this awe-inspiring exhibition educates visitors about anatomy, physiology and health. The bodies tell the story of the human body in states of health, distress, and disease with over 200 specimens and 13 full plastinated bodies on display. These detailed anatomical studies, compositions, and representations allow visitors a penetrating gaze at what lies beneath the skin: the design and function of the human body.

The bodies on display are preserved through the revolutionary science of plastination invented by Dr. Gunther von Hagens. Bodily fluids and fat are extracted then infusing plastic to replace them, allowing visitors to see the inside of the human body.

Exhibits present the most current information about common diseases. Healthy and diseased organs are set side by side, allowing  comparisons of healthy organs to lungs diseased from smoking and a liver damaged by alcoholism. Visitors see first hand
the long-term impact of our lifestyle choices, diseases and addictions affect our health and vitality.  You can even study the mechanics of prostheses such as artificial knee and hip joints.

Body Worlds Vital exhibition celebrates the virtuosity and resilience, wonder, sophistication and fragility of the human body.

*Admissions are every half hour on the hour (e.g. 10am, 10:30am, 11am,…)

Location: Rhode Island Convention Center, 1 Sabin St, Providence, RI 02903
Date: until January 1, 2017
Hours: Mon–Thurs 10 – 5:30pm, Fri 10 – 6:00pm, Sat 10 – 7pm, Sun 11 – 5:00pm
Tel: 844-253-4840
bodyworldsri.com
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