Bodies Exposition

What an amazing exhibit! This is an incredible look inside the human body, in a wonderfully three dimensional and interactive way.
The displays are really impressive — real bodies and parts of bodies that have been plastinated and preserved. I think I was most awed by the dissected circulatory systems that are coloured and suspended in liquid and retain the shape of the body parts they were removed from. It was kind of ethereal seeing all these body part shapes defined by an incredibly fine network of veins, arteries and capillaries.
The whole, posed bodies were really neat too — some were in really dynamic, captured-​in-​motion poses, and others were dissected in really interesting ways, like having a skeleton interacting with the flesh that it was removed from.
The presentation of the display was really well put together. The displays were well labelled with interesting and informative plaques in English and French, coupled with an optional audio tour (shell out the $ 5 for the audio tour — a lot of the info matches the info on the plaques, but there’s other stuff that isn’t on the plaques too.) They made really good use of space and lighting, including projecting magnified shapes of different cells on walls and floors, which was a neat touch.
The exhibit was really well organized — it was easy to move through the whole thing without missing anything or getting lost. There was a fetal exhibit that was easy to skip over for people who are squeamish or who have moral objections to viewing preserved fetuses.
There was supposed to be a touch gallery at the end where you could handle preserved body parts — the signage for that display was there but the display itself was gone — not sure what happened to it.
The whole thing was a little smaller than I expected, but it was still a very impressive and worth while visit, and I’d recommend seeing it while it’s still around. It’s a really wonderful view of the human body, and it really brought me a new appreciation of how complex we are.
We went on a weekday and happened to get there at the exact same time as a school group, but other than that it didn’t seem to be overly busy. It’s cheaper to go on a weekday than it is on a weekend.