Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies
Body Worlds

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BODY WORLDS:
An anatomical success history

Gunther of Hagens' BODY WORLDS are the first anatomical exhibitions prepared human body, which was made accessible for a broad public. Since beginning of the exhibition series of 1995 in Japan to today almost 25 million visitor in over 40 cities of Asia, Europe and North America the world-wide most successful special exhibition saw.

Internationally as BODY WORLDS, enjoy BODY WORLDS admit also after over ten years invariably large popularity. This success is to be due not least to the high didactical value of the exhibition, which has the requirement to arrange for anatomy also medical laymen understandably. In the center thereby the clearing-up is located over the human body, its functions, diseases and changes. Excluding positive resonance of the exhibition visitors from Hagens to it, from it developed property ago and constantly improved Plastinatinsprozess in a gläsernen workshop the broad public almost inspired to demonstrate. In the autumn 2006 it opened the PLASTINARIUM, which for its visitors BODY WORLDS live arrange in the brandenburgischen Guben.
The BODY WORLDS drew since their existence world-wide more than 22 million humans into the spell. Now are open the workshops of the Plastinators and scientist Gunther of Hagens for the first time to a broad public - in PLASTINARIUM in Guben.

The PLASTINARIUM is a world-wide unique mechanism, in which publicly the production of anatomical preparations of humans and animal is demonstrated. In addition in Guben at present European-wide the only possibility exists of experiencing the fascination of the genuine one of the BODY WORLDS.

The PLASTINARIUM is the result of over 30 years untiring research work of Gunther of Hagens at the interface between medical clearing-up and museum culture. With its innovative invention of the Plastination does not only have Gunther of Hagens the subject anatomy, but also the aspect on the human body in our current society considerably changes.