Body Worlds 2 @The Tech Museum of San Jose

Since the time we heard about it, we were finally able to do this famous exposition : "Body World 2 & The Three Pound Gem".
This Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies was presented at the Tech Museum of San Jose from September 27, 2007 through January 26, 2008.

First, Clement joined us at the Sino restaurant on Santana Row for their delicious Dim Sum.
Then, we took the line (2 hours...) just to buy the tickets. It allowed us to enter the museum only 2 hours later. Waiting for our time, we did the IMAX Dome Theater with a movie about "Le Tour de France".

Gunther von Hagens is the inventor of the Plastination process. It allows to preserve individual tissues and organs that have been removed from the body of the deceased as well as the entire body itself. By removing water and fats from the tissue and replacing these with polymers, the Plastination process deprives putrefaction bacteria of what they need to survive. In reality, it is more complex than that but all the details are on his website.

This exposition Body World 2 & The Three Pound Gem was more dedicated to the brain.
Having a background in biology, I found it very interesting and amazing to see muscles, all the organs, foetus, bones... from so close. There were also those black lungs from smokers which definitively should disgust people from cigarette.

If you have the opportunity to see this exposition close to your place one day, go for it!