Gunther
von Hagens´Body Worlds win „Health Media Award" 2010
Heidelberg/Köln,
1st of June 2010 - „And the winner is... Body Worlds!" Great distinction for the most
successful anatomy exhibtition in the world which attracted over 30 million visitors.
Out of more than 80 candidates, Body Worlds has been placed
first in the category „scientific communication" Thus the exhibtition is
honoured for the medical
education work and the
easily understandable communication of
science.
„For 20 years the inventor
of plastination, Gunther von Hagens bets on the most interesting visualisation
of bodies, organs, diseases as well as a modern marketing. Despite all the
oppostition, he has maintained his hold on the health market and is an adviser
in great demand for the new generation of doctors. Body Worlds pursues a
successful communication of science according to the tradition of the
anatomists of the Renaissance", says the selection committee.
„We are glad, that the plan of our exhibitions to help people lead a more
conscious and healthy life, convinced the
selection committee", says Gunther von Hagens. Curator Angelina Whalley
adds: „ The award is a wonderful recognition of our work over the years and
encourages us to hold on to our goals."
With the „Health Media Award" of the EEC Network and the
HealthFoundation, outstanding achievements in the field of health
communication are honoured.
Gunther von Hagen`s PLASTINARIUM opens again with a new concept after renovation
Guben, 22 of April 2010 - the time has come! On May 28th, 2010 the world wide unrivaled PLASTINARIUM reopens. After extensive renovations an Anatomical Teaching Center, unique in its didactic magnitude, has been created on 3000 square meters. Meanwhile the Gubener Plastinate GmbH whose public area is the PLASTINARIUM occupies 200 employees. A good 100,000 visitors from 45 countries visited the PLASTINARIUM between November 2006 and December 2008. They contributed with their suggestions substantially to the new concept of the PLASTINARIUM as an „anatomical teaching center".
In the reopened PLASTINARIUM the democratization of anatomy becomes reality, because everyone is allowed to study and teach with real anatomical plastinates for which whole body specimens and slice plastinates, made in Guben, are particularly suitable.
The former dissection workshop has been converted into a learning workshop equipped with unique plastinated specimens, as well as well-chosen models and poster boards which offers practice-oriented training facilities and research possibilities on a high level to doctors, students, healthcare professionals and medicine-technical enterprises. An insight into the anatomical complexity of the body is also granted to the medical layman. Henceforth plastination and dissection classes supervised by MD Gunther von Hagens will be offered.
In the PLASTINARIUM one can book rooms for dissection and operation courses. Thus the PLASTINARIUM makes an important contribution to the anatomical training of healthcare professionals. As an anatomical teaching and learning center it presents itself in three areas, one after the other: The history of anatomy and preservation techniques, the training and learning workshop and finally the show space and salesroom. There the sale of silicone and slice plastinates will be possible. Sales-limited human plastinates are offered only to certified users like doctors, professors, teaching institutions, hospitals et cetera. Special use regulations have to be followed by buyers of sales-limited animal plastinates, like elephant or rhinoceros. The price of a plastinate or perfect copy thereof lies between 80 and 15,000 Euros. A human lower leg slice costs 80 Euros, a head slice up to 1,500 Euros and a frontal whole body slice about 11,000 Euros. Besides that body glass slices of horse hooves (125 Euros), elephants, giraffes and other animals are offered.
Visitors can get to know the PLASTINARIUM, after previous registration, in different ways. The registration can be completed by telephone, personally or by e-mail under info@plastinarium.de. Spontaneous visitors have on site the possibility to join guided tours if free capacities occur.
Offers by the PLASTINARIUM:
1. Guided tour through PLASTINARIUM/ Anatomical Teaching Center
This guided tour shows three areas of the PLASTINARIUM. First the visitor learns about the history of anatomy, preservation and plastination techniques. Followed by the Learning and Teaching workshop that is divided into five stations. These stations are equipped with real plastinates and specific training aids depending on the subject. They grant the visitor detailed knowledge of the movement apparatus, heart circulation system, digestive tract, nervous system and the urogenital system. New highlight: The walk ends with the visit of the show space and salesroom.
Event: Monday till Friday at least twice a day, Saturday and Sunday with registration Duration: about 2 hours, 15-20 participants Prices: Adults 12.00 Euros Groups (from 15 Pers.) 8.00 Euros participant Children & youngsters (to 18 J.), pupil, student, person doing community service, retiree, Gubener citizen and handicapped people 8.00 Euros
2. Tour of the company facilities
This guided tour begins where the PLASTINARIUM/ Anatomical Teaching Center tour ends. Beginning with an overview from the rooftop the history of the production buildings, the town and the Gubener Plastinate GmbH presents itself. The visitor is shown the most important production stations, from the delivery site of the body donor up to the hardening of the plastinate.
Event: Monday till Friday at least once a day, Saturday and Sunday with registration Duration: about 2 hours, 15-20 participants Prices: Adults 12.00 Euros Groups (from 15 Pers.) 8.00 Euros participant Children & youngsters (to 18 J.), pupil, student, person doing community service, retiree, Gubener citizen and handicapped people 8.00 Euros
3. Day Tickets
With a day ticket one acquires free access to the learning workshop. Pupils, students, trainees and anatomically enthusiasts who wish to deepen their anatomical knowledge in self-study are invited to explore the five stations: Movement apparatus, heart circulatory system, digestive tract, nervous system and urogenital system which are all equipped with real plastinates, models, specific books and posters.
Event: workdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday and Sunday with registration Duration: 12 hours Prices: Adults 30.00 Euros Groups (from 15 Pers.) 20.00 Euros participant Children & youngsters (to 18 J.), pupil, student, person doing community service, retiree, Gubener citizen and handicapped people 20.00 Euros
4. Classes
To support a high-quality education, plastination and dissection classes supervised by MD Gunther von Hagens will be offered regularly:
In the plastination course the participants learn the preservation technology of the plastination in a workshop of several days. Besides, they learn, supervised by experienced employees, various plastination steps in a newly built learning area.
In the dissection course the participant acquires theoretical knowledge about the anatomy and applies it for deepening in practice. The course gives an overview about the basic structures of the body. The anatomical structures learnt in the theory are practiced in the practical part of the course.
5. Use as a training and conference center
The rooms available for rent are seminar rooms (up to 30 people), the learning workshop and the dissection hall. Teaching and learning materials such as plastinates, specific books, models, poster boards and modern media (internet connection, video projector, whiteboards, etc.) are made available. The dissection hall can be used for dissection as well as operation courses. Prices on inquiry.
6. Special Events
On inquiry special events like a wedding in the ambience of the PLASTINARIUM for doctor's brides or midnight-tours are also offered. The rooms of the PLASTINARIUM with its anatomical ambience can also be rented for festivities of every kind like youth inauguration, jubilees, small congresses/ conferences or courses of every kind. Prices on inquiry.
The PLASTINARIUM Guben will open daily from 10-18 o'clock starting on the 28th of May, 2010!
