Human body

I went to see an exhibit today called Jintai Plastomic: Mysteries of the Human Body , that I had wanted to see for a while. Basically it is models of the human body and all of the systems. The super cool one was of blood - all of the veins and arteries and stuff. Amazing. Only, I thought the models were made of plastic. Turns out they are real people! Or were real people! That was a bit freaky. Yuck. Interesting exhibit anyway.

True to Japanese form, there were fifty million people in the exhibit room. Museums really need to learn crowd control here. I hate fighting off people when I'm trying to look at things. Oh well - at least it wasn't the weekend crowd!

There were two bizarre behaviour instances. Near the end of the exhibit there was one model that you could touch. (It felt kinda waxy) While we were waiting our turn, Hiroshi and I were joking about grabbing on to its penis... but then a young girl (like 7) went up and started playing with it (as in stroking and tickling). For some reason, that just seemed wrong. The other strange thing we saw was the women around the one female model in the exhibition. Basically they were bending over and looking up at the woman's genital area. Lord only knows what they were trying to see.

Overall the exhibit was a bit freaky - especially the babies. They had the babies at different periods of gestation. I don't want to think about where they came from. How sad. The other stuff was a bit repetitive - it showed different things but basically each body just had certain parts cut out - the rest of the body was the same as all the other ones. Except of course the blood model. Still love that one.