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Taking pictures or filming Real Bodies is not possible. Only the memory of every visitor will be able to record images of more than 350 organs and whole real human bodies that will be on display from Saturday, 31, at the National Cordage in Lisbon.

José Araújo, one responsible for the arrival of exposure to Portugal (the promoters are the World Crew Events and Dock), explains that while the theme is the same as another exhibit that’s been through here in 2007, which is seen in Cordoaria “it is different in content and size.” In Venice, which was open for about four months, Real Bodies – Discover the Human Body welcomed about 200,000 visitors. In Lisbon, it is also expected a significant number.

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The show of great visual impact, it occupies 1700 square meters, and consists of ten galleries where, in detail, if makes known the skeletons, muscles, circulatory and nervous system, digestive system, urinary, reproductive (fetal development) and respiratory. It also includes an area dedicated to the sectioned and other sport anatomy.

It will treat yourself to a visit of discovery, education and teaching, both adults and children. In the words of the surgeon António Gentil Martins, who joined the initiative: “It is to make known what is unknown”. Section by section discover the location of the bodies, size and relationship between them, the nerve endings throughout the body, fetuses and embryos at various stages, the interior of the brain, the muscles necessary for movements such as the dribbling of a basketball player, a shot a football player or a simple movement of ends of a dancer.

The information Real Bodies is a lot and detailed, so you have to go with time. The organization predicts that the visit lasts an hour and a half, but Laura Navarro Joy, of Spanish origin and curator of the exhibition, has another opinion: “I think that three hours are needed.” . Better than anyone, Laura knows what it takes to be able to absorb the amount of data contained in these bodies

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“Inside we are all equal and the exhibition’s aim is above all to understand the body’s functioning so that we can learn to defend him.” Among the various tasks that Laura Navarro Joy runs, is cleaning daily of “parts”. The organs and human bodies are preserved through a specific polymerization technique, the more advanced the preservation of bodies and includes, for example, the removal of all fluids.

This type of exhibition only it is possible to achieve because there were people who donated their body to science, a subject still little spoken among the Portuguese for which Gentil Martins draws attention: “Society has an interest that doctors are good and they learn and train skills .. real things is to think that, after death, no good for anything I will help and be useful to science “

Real Bodies -. Discover the Human Body

National Cordage, Av India, s / n, Lisbon T. 91 045 6819. The as of 31 Out, Mon-Sun 10h-20h & gt.; € 15.50, children 5-12 years € 11.50