Dare Visit the Museum's corpse?

Dare Visit the Museum's corpse?

A museum with a collection of skinned corpses and preserved to show the complexity of the human body has just opened in Berlin. An anatomist, Gunther von Hagens and his wife, Angelina Whalley is the person who initiated the museum.

The new museum was inaugurated on Wednesday (02/18/2015), filled with the bodies of the injected silicone rubber and resin, known as the "plastinasi". Gunther dubbed as "Dr. Death" or "doctor death". He never held a controversial exhibition "Body Worlds" by traveling around the world since 1995 and attracts around 40 million visitors.

Berlin today became the first permanent place to exhibit Gunther and his wife. Museum is located in front of the television tower in Berlin in Alexanderplantz. The extent of 1,200 square meters.

In the museum, there are 20 bodies were skinned so it looks muscles, organs, blood vessels, and bones. The collections are arranged in lifelike poses such as sitting, stretching, and exercise.

Whalley said by visiting the exhibition, visitors can gain a new perspective on the body and lifestyle. "After visiting the exhibition, some people say that they will not underestimate their body again," he said as quoted by Reuters.

He added that a survey of visitors conducted six months after visiting the exhibition proves that 9 percent had quit smoking, 23 percent do more exercise, and 30 percent eat healthier.

But not everyone in Berlin attracted by the idea of ​​showing off corpses openly in the city. Museums have to face opposition from local authorities stating that this exhibition unlawful burial local laws and restrictions on the body exhibit, which led to the trial to prohibit the exhibition last October. Gunther won the case.

Some visitors to see the exhibition is a collection of dead bodies as part of a work of art, like Detlef von Wagner, 61-year-old man who agreed body processed plastinasi after he died. Detlef said that he did not want to just rot or burn. For him, plastinasi is art. People pay to see your body in an exhibition

"The desire to stay alive after death makes me want to do it. Moreover, no one needs to pay for my funeral, a good idea is not it? "He said.