I was in the camp of “this is going to be nasty” and a little anxious about the state of the displays (something feels wrong for me calling dead people displays, but…): for instance I can’t help but cringe even at “fake” operations let alone the real ones on Discovery Channel.

It was nothing like that. It was very easy to view and quite interesting. I was finding myself looking forward to the internal organs (they start out with various bones and bone systems like the skull, etc.).

Overall it was very tastefully done and have recommended it to others since.

Although they did mention somewhere about the pregnant woman. Apparently she was diagnosed prior to or during the early stages of pregnancy that she had a “terminal illness” and was going to soon die.

All-in-all I had a nice time, and visited the other parts of the museum too which I had not been to in, easily, 17 years. A lot has changed, and it took a while to figure out what used to be where and such. I did find the pendulum stairway and the Olde Tyme Ice Cream Shoppe.

…but the whisper booths, couldn’t find those. Oh well.

I did find the old plasticky heart that you could walk in and hear a “heart beat.” Not quite the same after seeing one out of a body.

-m

-d