PaullyInNYC

The Body Exhibition

The NY Times has a good summary of issues surrounding the human cadaver exhibit that is opening up at the South Street Seaport. Basically, the controversy is whether or not the bodies for the exhibition were legally obtained: All the bodies are from China, where the law runs fast and loose, with some groups suspecting the 22 bodies on display may be those of prisoners. And as our readers explained to us, this is not the more "credible" bodies exhibit, Body Worlds, which opens our eyes to the competition in that small niche of body exhibitions. Charmingly, BODIES medical adviser tries to sell the exhibit as a "scared straight" option, as there are "lungs blackened by smoking and a brain damaged by a stroke." Go to this show before lunch...or maybe after... or if you want to go on a diet, perhaps.
Tickets are $24.50 for adults, $20.50 for seniors (over 60), and $18.50 for children (12 and under), which is expensive, but when are you going to see a bunch of bodies hacked up and put on display, short of getting into med school? You can buy tickets in advance here.

bigapple

By the way I went to this exhibit and absolutly loved it. Thought it was awsome and very interesting! I highly recommend it.

TheMan

this is a great museum i highly recommend it for any tourist or local new yorker that has not been there. Its really an awsome place! Go check it out!

lauren

I saw an ad for the body exhibit on the hop on hop off New york city bus tours. It was a picture similar to that of the guy pictured above.

lauren

Oh I forgot to mention that at first it freaked me out and definitly caught my eye.

bigapple

Hey lauren, as I stated earlier I loved the body exhibit its really interesting place. Just wanted to let you know I also saw the ad on the hop off hop on bus. It had the same skeleton guy but he was lieing down along the bus.

latenite77

If an anatomy textbook came to life, it might look like “Bodies … The Exhibition,” located at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan.

The exhibit features 22 human bodies and 260 specimens preserved for display in a 30,000-square-foot space. Highlights include skinless cadavers in a football player’s pose, another throwing a baseball and one body holding hands with its own removed skeleton — all to show how muscles, tendons and bones work together.

This is just mind-blowing exhibit. I highly recommend it to any visitor in New York City. I feel absolutely grateful that this is here!

SwimCoach

saw on the news today that certain officials want to know where the bodies at the museum are coming from? Certain people are offended that the museum has possibly used chinese prisoners for display models. The museum has denied this claim of course!