The Body Worlds Vital exhibition is a new chapter in the famous series of Body Worlds exhibitions, which have been experienced by over 43 million people in more than 90 cities. After three years of traveling in Europe, they are coming to Ljubljana, at the Gospodarska razvatshišče, where visitors will be able to experience for themselves the meeting of all worlds in one place - from medicine to science and art.
Body Worlds Vital Exhibition there is no replay of the exhibition Exposed bodies (2012), which is originally from of the United States of America. It was also impossible to see on it preserved human bodies in motion with an emphasis on a healthy lifestyle, and the exhibits were not the result either humanitarian project, as characterized by Body Worlds Vital.
When prof. dr. Gunther von Hagens became assistant professor of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg in 1977, he discovered plastination, whose procedures and methods were later developed and updated. Plastination is a process or technique used to prevent the decay of the human body after death. The plastination process keeps it in he says, original shape and color and odorless.
The exhibits, which you will be able to see from October 20 at the exhibition, they are first fixed in formalin. Then they prepare tissue structures such as vessels, nerves, muscles, ligaments, etc. They prevent the decomposition process by they soak the corpse in a bath of acetone for several months. But later with a special procedure acetone is replaced by chemical polymer compounds.
For the complete plastination of the human body, approx 1500 hours. The goal of the end result is to emphasize the meaning health and a healthy lifestyle. The exhibition shows whole bodies and individual organs in healthy, endangered and damaged or diseased state. Therefore, they want to emphasize the importance of a healthy lifestyle on an individual's life. It might sound creepy to watch at first glance corpses of persons who were once living beings, but in this way you can through this exhibition to you get to know the details of how your body works.
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