A new version of the popular “Body Worlds” exhibit is coming to the Science Museum of Minnesota in January. The first “Body Worlds” exhibit in 2006 broke attendance records, drawing some 750,000 ...

Sometimes, after a long week, all a person really wants to do is read about alternative burial methods, am I right? If, like me, you think that regular funeral plans are way too boring, and you want ...

“Beautiful” might not be the word most people would use to describe a slice of human brain, captured in cross section, looking slightly like a Dr. Seuss tree with pinkish lobes. But that is what ...

Peter Chi, 3, of Allentown was a little disturbed by the brains. He ran up to the glass case at the Franklin Institute Science Museum, peered in at the preserved human organs, shrieked and ran away.

An exhibit already viewed by more than 5 million people will soon be on display in Houston. The Moody Gardens Discovery Museum will host the Body Worlds RX exhibition, beginning May 18. “Body Worlds ...

The battle of cadavers is over before it began. Houston's modest Health Museum abruptly canceled its upcoming exhibit of posed, preserved human bodies — anticipated as its first blockbuster — ...

DALLAS – Stace Owens has no intention of leaving this world when he dies. He plans to stick around for decades or longer, preserved in plastic and displayed in a museum or medical school. The ...

The first exhibit in Alaska of human bodies preserved using "plastination" will be exhibited at the Anchorage Museum this year. An announcement from the museum on Wednesday said "Body Worlds Vital" ...

BERLIN - A permanent museum showing preserved corpses stripped of skin to reveal the complexity of the human body opens in Berlin on Wednesday. The brainchild of German anatomist Gunther von Hagens ...