Body Exhibit vs. The Mutter Museum
There are museums in Jersey, but residents traditionally bring their business out of state. South Jersey museumgoers gravitate towards Philly, while Northerners go to New York.
For instance, I have been to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Natural History museum dozens of times, but the only museum in New Jersey that I am even aware of is the Liberty Science Center, which is definitely geared towards children.
I have gone on two ill-advised dates; one to the Mutter Museum in Philly, and one to the Bodies Exhibit in New York. The only advantage to bringing a date to either place is that I promise your bill for dinner after will be cheap.
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia collected the exhibits at the Mutter Museum to allow med students to study medical anomalies. The subject matter ranges from the history of medical procedures to unusual medical oddities. One of the most unusual exhibits is the displayed body of a woman who was buried in an alkaline field. Her body reacted with the element, and literally turned into soap. There is also a display case filled with skulls of every imaginable ethnicity.
The Bodies Exhibit is a controversial display of bodies preserved using Polymer Preservation. The bodies, which human rights activists claim are displayed without consent of the deceased, are all of Asian decent. They are displayed in a variety of ways, ranging from a cross-sectioned cadaver to examples of bodies in motion. There are examples where just the circulatory system has been preserved, as well as examples of other anatomical systems.
In conclusion, both the Mutter Museum and the Bodies Exhibit are terrible places to take a date, and I never learn my lesson the first time. I don’t know how why I thought that the Bodies exhibit would be any more romantic than the Mutter Museum, but I can assure you that it wasn’t.
WOW…you must be a real cheapskate. Admission to the Mutter is $12, so if your paying less than that for dinner on a date, I pitty your date! I guess you have to be human to appreciate that the Mutter gives us an insight in to what it means to be human and grateful for the advances in medical science. But I guess that someone who is obviously taking dates to McDonald’s for a gourmet meal wouldn’t understand that.
TJinPhilly said this on November 22, 2008 at 6:13 pm