Why did bodies exhibit close?
A group of lawyers, academics and human rights campaigners has called on the federal government to shut down a controversial Sydney exhibition, amid claims the show could be displaying the bodies of executed Chinese political prisoners.
Will BODY WORLDS London reopen?
Body Worlds is permanently closed.
Where is the bodies exhibition now?
“BODIES 2.0: The Universe Within” is presented by EMS Entertainment and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. through Oct. 15 at Santa Monica Art Museum, 1219 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica.
What is the name of the exhibition with bodies?
Bodies: The Exhibition. The Exhibition is an exhibition showcasing human bodies that have been preserved through a process called plastination and dissected to display bodily systems. It opened in Tampa, Florida on August 20, 2005. It is similar to, though not affiliated with, the exhibition Body Worlds (which opened in 1995).
Are the bodies in Australia’s ‘real bodies’ exhibition real bodies?
But there are “grave concerns” of the origins of the bodies used. THERE are “grave concerns” that many of the cadavers featured in “Real Bodies: The Exhibition” to open in Australia once belonged to Chinese political prisoners who were tortured and murdered.
Should an exhibition of preserved human bodies in Sydney be shut down?
An exhibition of preserved human bodies has drawn controversy in Australia this week after an activist group raised questions about the origin of the specimens. The group of objectors – who include doctors, lawyers and scientists – have called for the exhibition in Sydney to be shut down.
Are the cadavers at the real bodies exhibition legal?
But the organisers of Real Bodies: The Exhibition have strongly denied those allegations, calling them “lies” and “sensationalism”. They say the 20 cadavers were legally provided by a medical university in China, where hospitals had determined them to be “unclaimed corpses”.