Exploratorium: Revealing Bodies: Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes Take a deeper look at the Revealing Bodies exhibition through wide-ranging conversations with the artists, writers, scientists, and other experts who created and inspired the exhibition.
	Listen to Melissa Alexander, Exhibition Director, as she relates a personal story that led to the creation of the show.
Hear BettyAnn Kevles, author of "Naked to the Bone," discuss the history of X rays and how they have affected our culture.
	Cultural anthropologist Steve Kurzman looks at the cultural significance of prosthetic limbs. For more information, check out his Web site .
See clips of performance artist Scott Serrano as Dr. Wilson J. Quain, a Victorian anatomist who "dissects" himself.
	Photographer Rosamond Purcell explores the history and aesthetic qualities of the "Medical Venus," the rare eighteenth-century wax anatomical model from Italy that served as the cornerstone to the exhibition.
Watch the dissection of a real pig's heart by Exploratorium educator Rhodri Dierst-Davies.

'Revealing Bodies'
Exhibition Director Melissa Alexander gives an expert introduction to the exhibition.

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