Body Worlds Milwaukee Public Museum

A few weekends ago, I had a chance to see the Body Worlds exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum. Turns out it wasn't creepy at all. Rather than thinking that every body was once a living person, they all just seemed to look like models to me. They're was obviously some artistic vision put into these because they were mostly positioned to what type of person the body belonged to. In all honestly, I believe this artistic interpretation actually hurt the exhibit. For me the exhibit was supposed to be about the science of bodies including the muscle system, joints, or the nervous system. When they had a normal muscle system of a person standing up and the muscle system of a football player being tackled, you were supposed to be able to see the different muscles in use on the football player. Honestly there was no difference and the outrageous position of a body made up only of muscles just sort of added to the fakeness of it all. I think the most effective way the artist could have portrayed the bodies as real was finally seen at the end of the exhibit by a body that was cut into 5 or 6 layers from front to back and everything was included such as skin, hair, and visible tattoos. This really gave me the impression that this person was once living and I think it was that layered appearance the artist gave it that made much more of an impact that the ridiculous poses of just muscles and bones.