A brand new museum inside of the Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium at U.T. is making its debut this weekend with a fascinating exhibit considered controversial by some.
"Our Body: The Universe Within" is an exhibit featuring dozens of human bodies, most of which have had the skin removed, leaving the muscles, tendons and veins remarkably preserved by a process called polymer impregnation.
"You can see inside the systems of the body in ways that no book or film could ever teach you" said Terry Todd, a U.T. professor of Kinesiology.
Todd and his wife Jan, both of whom are kinesiology professors at U.T., helped to raise millions of dollars for the brand new H.J. Lutcher Stark Center, located on the fifth floor of the Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium at U.T.
"I hope when people leave this exhibit they have a more profound respect for the really extraordinary complexity of the human body," said Todd.
It's not just human bodies which defy imagination. The exhibit also features internal organs, both healthy and non-healthy ones, side-by-side for the sake of comparison.
Similar exhibits around the world two years ago caused controversy in some circles when skeptics said the cadavers were Chinese death row inmates.
Todd says all of the bodies in the exhibit are Chinese; however, he says each person donated their bodies to science and their families signed papers giving permission for their loved ones to be part of the exhibit.
The bodies exhibit opens Saturday, April 24th at 10 a.m. and is here indefinitely.
Cost is $21 for adults and $11 for students and children.
For more information, click here: http://www.starkcenter.org/
