Body Worlds is a traveling exposition of dissected human bodies, animals, and other anatomical structures of the body that have been preserved through the process of plastination. Gunther von Hagens d
Storefront display of Body Worlds exhibition in Amsterdam (2016)
Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds exhibition, San Diego, California, 2009
Plastinated human organs, at the Body Worlds exhibition in Poznań, Poland in 2018
Gunther von Hagens was a German anatomist, businessman, and lecturer. He developed the technique for preserving biological tissue specimens called plastination. Von Hagens organized numerous Body Worl
Body Worlds
…exposition of dissected human bodies, animals, and other anatomical structures of the body that have been preserved through the process of plastination. Gunther von Hagens developed the preservation process which "unite[s] subtle anatomy and modern polymer chemistry", in the late 1970s. A series of Body Worlds anatomical…
Gunther von Hagens in 2009
Gunther von Hagens in Cologne, 2000