At 9:30am this morning my excursion to the body-worlds began. but first i had to pick up a friend of mine and we had a quick breakfast at his place. the drive to Frankfurt-Fechenheim was no deal but finding the event-hall in midst of an industrial park took us quite long. there were buses filled with crowds of highscool students awaiting us.. as if they had nothing better to do at 11 o’clock! even so it was not necessary to stand in line at the cash box (in mannheim visitors often had to wait 4h to get in!) … the admission charge was 9 Euro (reduced prize), catalogues and wireless info phones not included.
Unfortunately the exposition itself really was a big disappointment for me (maybe my expectations were to high?). the show room had only about 200 square meters, which is about 600 square feet, and there were only circa 25–30 full body plastinations and several smaller parts on display. Some of them were clearly designed only for cheap show effects and had no educational message at all, others i had already seen before. Just 1h later we were on our way back home & i had spent about 30 Euro altogether. btw. no cameras were allowed, so i don’t have any pictures for you. mind you, i would not show them anyway…
on the whole, instead of spending that much money for almost nothing, i would rather recommend to visit an anatomical institute at a university nearby. most of them have anatomical exhibits of their own and will surely let you see them (free of charge).
