A Striking Journey through the Human Body


GForce Exhibitions is holding its new exhibition featuring real human bodies and specimens at Istanbul Aquarium Science Center in Aqua Florya Shopping Mall. With 200 carefully dissected full and partial body specimens, the Human Body Exhibition showcases the intricacies of the human body and how it functions by displaying what happens underneath the skin in 3-D. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through its nine galleries that highlight the essential features of human anatomy and displays the effects of smoking, obesity and other damage that can be caused by neglecting the body. Visitors will have a chance to compare healthy lungs to black lungs that are severely damaged by smoking. Looking into the human body through a surgeon's eyes and discovering it despite its complexities might be the chance of a lifetime.The specimens featured in the exhibition were donated to the Chinese Dalian Hoffen Bio-technique Laboratory, which engages in research and innovation of the plastination technique and processes, preserves and provides specimens to medical schools and the general public for educational purposes in accordance with Chinese law for educational purposes and for public exhibition.Through the plastination process, human tissue is permanently preserved by using liquid silicone rubber that is treated and hardened. In the end, a rubberized specimen preserved on the cellular level displays the complexity of skeletal structure, musculature, nerves, blood vessels and organs.Producing a full body specimen can take more than a year.Visitors are able to take a journey from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean by following a geographic route in Istanbul Aquarium. In the themes of the exhibition halls in the aquarium, the related cultural, historical and architectural features, interactive games, films and detailed information are used. The aquarium's sound and lighting systems are also in accordance with the themes of the halls. Istanbul Aquarium offers its visitors thousands of living creatures in 64 large and small tanks and a fun experience of the underwater world. When: Until Aug. 31 Where: Istanbul Aquarium Science Center