Body Worlds

Body Worlds already visited the Bavarian capital in 2003 and 2014, generating enthusiasm among visitors from all generations. Now the world's most successful anatomy show is returning with a new theme. 

In ‘Body Worlds - On the Pulse of Time’, exhibition organiser Dr Angelina Whalley shows the human body in many facets and illustrates its vulnerability, but also its potential in the face of the challenges it has to overcome in the 21st century.

‘The exhibition is an invitation to critically scrutinise the constant sensory overload of modern life and its long-term effects on the body and mind. I want to encourage people to become aware of their responsibility for their own health,’ says the curator, describing the idea behind the exhibition. In addition to explanations on nutrition, exercise and strengthening the immune system, the exhibition shows how a healthy and long life can be achieved in today's world.

Body Worlds is an exhibition that changes the way we look at ourselves and our lifestyle. More than 56 million people around the world have already embarked on this journey of self-discovery through the human body.

The fascinating real human exhibits, including many full-body plastinates, provide a comprehensive insight into the complex structure of our inner life and explain the functioning and interplay of body systems and organs, as well as common diseases and their development, in an easily understandable way.

The plastinates shown in the exhibition come from the body donation programme of the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, in which more than 21,000 people are now registered.

Photo credits: Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds, Institute for Plastination Heidelberg and Tobias Tanzyna