Bodies Revealed – Sacramento

To every single one of you on here complaining about how «unethical» this process is: you’re a effing idiot. What kind of stupid head pays to go to an exhibit, KNOWING that the bodies are in fact, yes, REAL?! They have a website. You can access it. It’s free. Don’t be an idiot and give something educational like this terrible ratings because you’re too stupid to realize that a «BODIES exhibit» is, guess what, REAL BODIES! Or freak out because there’s some conspiracy on how these bodies were acquired. Wah.

Okay I don’t get it, why would you want to see this crap? It’s a bit too gory for me. and those are real people?!? WTF!!!

Interesting but a few of the displays were a little creepy for me although I was glad to see the human body in ways that otherwise I would never see. Not sure how kids might handle some of it. Thought some of the displays could have been better.
Soooo glad we did not pay full price. Do yourself a huge favor and print the coupon for $ 11 admission. $ 25 is far too much to pay. Also, our ticket stub was good a free sandwich at Chik –Fil-​A across the street.
They told us the exhibit leaves town 10÷31÷10.

Heads up folks! If you have a AAA card or even if you don’t when checking out for your tickets online for this Bodies Revealed exhibition in Sacramento, under Promo code just type AAA and you get a discount about a total of $ 10+ off for two tickets is what I got.
the best part is they DON’T ever ask for your AAA membership card number in the order checkout at any time nor do they ask for it at the door!
Hope this helps!

Awesome! Wow. Interested in health, fitness, exercise, disease this is a must see

I saw the BodyWorlds exhibit first when I was in New York and so I when I saw last year that Bodies Revealed was in town, I thought it would be just as cool. and it was not.
I recently went again this year because my niece, Angela, wanted to go. $ 22 for adults, $ 14 for kids and not worth it. The preservation doesn’t look very good nor does the exhibition as a whole. The subjects are mostly little men. There were facts on the walls but some of it left you needing more background.
I strongly recommend BodyWorlds over Bodies Revealed. The fact that this one is closer should not be justification for going. It’s terrible.
A free chicken sandwich in exchange for your ticket stub at Chick-​Fil-​A hardly compensates either.

This was awesome.
I came here when this exhibit was in Sacramento and was blown away.
At first I wasn’t sure how I was going to react when viewing actual human bodies, but it was a great experience.
I chose not to go with the audio tour and just explore myself, which was way better in my opinion. Especially since I had heard that the audio tour was a waste of money.
The bodies are displayed in unique positions and there are plenty of things to read around each that explain the way that our bodies function. Every thing from eyes to skin to muscles. The bodies are not encased in glass, so you really can get as close as you want. If, however, you’re squeamish about this kind of thing, I would recommend that you don’t come and view this exhibit. Maybe if you’re someone who can’t handle gore in horror movies, that kind of thing.
There is a section that is optional in viewing — the fetus displays. Some people find this part of the exhibit to be morbid and offensive, but i found it to be quite interesting. But you ARE given the option to go around if you don’t want to see this part.
One thing that did move me was the display of the human lungs damaged by longtime smoking. There was even a box beneath it that let you dispose of your cigarettes if you wished to give up smoking right away after seeing the lungs. There were hundreds inside! I’m glad that they decided to show this because it probably helped out those people who needed a real-​life kick to give up smoking.
I know I will definitely be making a trip back to this exhibit a second time in the near future.

Fascinating. I’ve been to Bodies twice (once each time it came to Sacramento) and would gladly go a third time.
Bodies provides a unique opportunity to see how the body works and looks — inside and out. You can read all the anatomy books you want, but seeing it firsthand is a completely different experience and completely worth the money. The way the complete bodies were displayed allowed you to get up close and personal. I thought it was unnecessary to glue the eyebrows, eyelashes, and nipples back on some of the bodies, but then again, it reminded you that they were human. Yes, the human body is gross. If this kind of stuff grosses you out, use your common sense and stay away.
The staff are helpful and polite, the exhibit was clean and has places to sit here and there.
Skip the audio tour, it’s not worth the extra money.
I do wish the parking was better, and that they had more stuff in their gift shop. When we went, something was broken and you could only use cash so I wasn’t able to buy anything. It happens, but it was disappointing.

This would be a good educational experience were it not for the unethical practices that surround this exhibit. I’d much rather visit an exhibition of this kind (such as the original German one, BodyWorlds) that uses bodies that were donated for such purposes — meaning the families of the deceased know exactly that their loved ones will be displayed for educational purposes (though the original isn’t free of its own controversies).
All the bodies here are from China, and it’s possible that the families of the deceased were not even notified of their loved ones’ death. Imagine: some might be thinking that their family members are in a Chinese prison while they are, in actuality, plastinated and on display thousands of miles away.

I was really excited to check out the exhibition, but when I called for information the guy told me that the Sacramento one closed. ;-(i guess I have to go to another city to see this event…

I caught the exhibit on its final weekend with my girlfriend. I had a good time, wandering about the exhibit with her, and getting a peak into what’s going on inside myself. There’s no way you’re going to get this kind of feeling or knowledge from an anatomy book. I had the chance to talk with a retired nurse while in the exhibit, and she commented that this kind of first-​hand perspective would have been invaluable when she started that career. However, I don’t think that I really got anything more out of it the second time around; I had seen the same exhibit in San Francisco several years previous.
There are a couple of points, though. First off, yes, twenty four dollars per person is a lot of money. It would be great if this kind of educational experience would be open to a lot more people, and charging a high entrance fee limits who can go.
Second, it would have been nice to get a variety of races (despite the fact that we’re all pretty much the same on the inside) and health levels (what does a good pancreas look like next to a cancerous one, side by side?), as well as more female representation (because there are significant differences there).
And afterwards, we really wanted a hamburger or flat-​iron steak. Is that wrong?

I thought that this was going to be a lot like the Body Works [I believe] exhibit that toured many years ago in Los Angeles. But this was so extremely poorly constructed and boring. I have to agree with the questionable methods of how the bodies were obtained does overshadow the experience… but honestly there was no redeeming creative qualities whatsoever.
Go buy an anatomy book and save yourself the trouble.

Whoa… how did they do that? And yes… DO, no wait DON’T tell me the story about where these bodies came from! All I kept thinking about as I went from display to display was…“how much trial and error did it take to get these «right» like this?” I’m sure there were MANY bodies used in the process!
I took my kids to this (8 &12) because I like them to expand their minds, but I would have been able to appreciate it more without my younger one there. He did fine, but his presence made me go faster through each section than I would have preferred. Let’s just say you get to see EVERYTHING about the body preserved… all sorts of cancer, the nervous system, the develpment of a fetus, the brain, the lungs… eyeballs, ears, digestive system… spine, spleen, etc… even an expanded MRI image «cross section» display of an entire body (it’s hard to explain).
It was fascinating and interesting to say the least. It may be a tad overpriced, but it is still amazing. I just got back from viewing it less than a couple hours ago and I have to admit… it made me a little bit queasy (and I still feel that way). If you are the least bit interested, take the time to go see it… definitely not something you will see (or want to see) every day.

Interesting… yes! Expensive… yes!
I’m glad I went to see this exhibition despite the controversy surrounding it. I’d like to think that what the say isn’t true but I did see the ²⁰⁄₂₀ expose’ and it looked pretty bad.
Like others have said, I’m in the health field and this kind of stuff is really interesting to me. I’ve also taken Anatomy so there wasn’t anything shocking. The human body is an amazing and complex machine. I think everyone should go just to see what a lung from a smoker looks like. It’s an eye opening experience (literally for them!). It was an educational experience but the price was a little steep.

After seeing a similar showing in NY (Bodies: The Exhibit) I was really looking forward to introducing this to one of my friends. Most of my review is a comparison to the show I had previously seen.
All of the cadavers looked like really old men with saggy muscles and poor posture. (I’m not even going to get into the awful suspect of how they obtained these bodies.)
Their exhibit of the full-​body circulatory system looked as if it were smashed flat, and this pancake-​artery-​man had vein dust at his feet.
Staring at a skinless body invokes very deep emotions. Unfortunately this showing was poorly executed, questionably immoral, and disrespectful of their bodies. This place left me depressed and disturbed while the other similar event I visited left me in awe and inspired.
I am a little disgusted with myself.

A bit on the pricey side, in my opinion. But it was worth a trip to Sacramento. My husband and I are both in health care and this was high on our list of things to do for the new year.
I am extremely glad that we ate dinner AFTER visiting this exhibit. Please keep in mind that camera and cell phone use are not allowed. But some idiot wandering the respiratory area proceeded to answer her phone twice. I thought about taking her picture… but didn’t.

3.5 stars
My friends and I were really looking forward to this visit, being that most of us had gone through pre-​med and we thought it would be great to see what we’ve learned in a new way.
With that said, it was a good experience. We saw «the body» in new, dimensional ways. I do suggest that those who are the slightest bit interested in this exhibit go and check it out. It costs $ 24 for an adult, plus an additional $ 6 for an audio tour.
The audio «tour» wasn’t necessarily helpful. I would have been fine not purchasing the audio. But if you are curious, just buy one and turn up the volume, then share it with whoever you go with. For $ 30, we did expect a lot more than we got. We expected to see more displays, so we were a bit disappointed.
Aaron W. brings up a good question that we all had on our minds the entire time we were in the exhibit. «Where do the bodies come from?» We expected to get some kind of answer or blurb on the subject, but we got nothing. The «donation of body» cards scared me.
Overall, I’m glad I went to the exhibition. I just think it is a bit overpriced for the amount of information and layout of the displays in the exhibit.

I went to the Bodies Revealed exhibition because some of my friends are in the health field and were interested to go; I tagged along just to spend some time with them. While it initially seemed like a new and exciting experience, my final verdict is that it’s not worth the $ 24 dollars at all, plus, I walked away feeling shameful and dirty that I supported this show.
First, I find it very odd that rather than the bodies being a mixture of people of different racial/​ethnic backgrounds, the exhibition consists of dominantly (or is it all?) Asian, specifically Chinese, bodies. Questions have already been araised about how these bodies were donated. Also, the fact that these bodies are on display like this makes this show no different from a zoo or a circus where patrons ogle at the already often-​exoticized Asian body and appearance. Hottentot Venus, anyone?
The facts about the human body and system scattered around here and there are basic information that can easily be found on the internet; it is nothing groundbreaking and NOT worth $ 24 dollars to learn. Sure, it may be a different experience seeing it in person, especially if you’re in the medical/​health field, but supporting this exhibit is a different issue.
To me, this show did not seem to be an advancement for education, art, nor medicine — financial benefit is obviously the driving factor. Do not trust everyone in a white lab coat who claims to be working in the name of medicine! Please DO NOT support this show and ones like it.