Real human bodies are now on display at The Health Museum in Houston. Body Worlds: Inside Life opens to the public Saturday, ...

The Science Within” at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium runs from now until Nov. 29 and includes Spanish translations.

An anatomy lecturer has sparked an ethics debate over a Sydney exhibition displaying real human bodies, including some posed having sex, questioning whether donors fully understood how their remains ...

In 1977, Gunther von Hagens developed a preservation technique that changed what could be done with human anatomical specimens. Almost two decades later, that technique became the foundation of BODY ...

It takes around 1,500 hours to get an entire body ready for a “Body Worlds” exhibit—a process that involves removing the skin, partially dissecting it to reveal organs, muscles and veins, replacing ...

Gunther von Hagens, the anatomist who invented plastination and turned donated human cadavers into the posed “Body Worlds” exhibits seen by more than 58 million people, has died. Gunther Von Hagens ...

German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, who enjoyed worldwide success and controversy with exhibitions of human and animal corpses, has died, his team said Monday, specifying that he himself will be ...

Just over 30 years ago, Gunther von Hagens premiered “BODY WORLDS,” a museum exhibition full of real, flayed human corpses that were posed and cross-sectioned. The anatomist had prepared the donated ...

HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- It is with deep sadness that the family and the Institute for Plastination announce the passing of Dr. Gunther von Hagens, inventor of Plastination ...

BERLIN (AP) — Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who generated both fascination and revulsion around the globe with his “Body Worlds” exhibits of preserved human corpses, has died. He was 81.