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BODY WORLDS - The 02

Published 5 December 8 6:29 PM | charlotte

The BODY WORLDS exhibitions are the first of their kind. Visit and you'll learn about anatomy, physiology and health by viewing real human bodies. The bodies have been preserved by a process called Plastination – a groundbreaking method for preservation invented by Dr Gunther von Hagens in 1977. BODY WORLDS & The Mirror of Time is the latest BODY WORLDS exhibition. It features over 200 real specimens and has a special focus on health, wellbeing and the ageing process. The beauty of the human...

Filed under: exhibition, life cycle, dr angelina whalley, body worlds, human bodies, plastination, anatomy, dr gunther von hagens, the 02, preservation, physiology

17th Century Gloves - Exhibition - Bath

Published 18 November 8 5:35 PM | charlotte

Fashion Museum Assembly Rooms Bennett Street Bath BA1 2QH Tel: +44 (0) 1225 477173 The display at the Bath & North East Somerset Council-run museum, includes nearly 20 examples of beautifully decorated gloves, ranging in date from the early years of the century when James I was King to the 1660s when his grandson Charles II was restored to the throne. All of the gloves are on loan to the Fashion Museum from The Gloves’ Collections Trust, a special body set up by the Worshipful Company of Glovers...

Filed under: bath, charles 2nd, 20 examples, spence collection, exhibition, bath & north east somerset council, robert spence, james 1st, the gloves collection trust, worshipful company of glovers of london, fashion museum, 17th century gloves, antiquarian, assembly rooms