05 April 2012

Pickled animals form backbone of anatomy display

Pickled animals form backbone of new anatomy display
Exposed elephant ... animals' anatomies are the focus of new exhibition

An exhibition that shows animals in their most stripped back form — dissected, pickled and reassembled — will open on Friday.

Featuring around 100 specimens, Animal Inside Out displays the anatomical structure of some spectacular creatures.

Giraffe at the Animal Inside Out exhibition
Skin deep ... giraffe

It includes a giraffe revealing its neck vertebrae and a goat cut open to display the foetuses inside.

There is also a lamb constructed from its own capillaries, and a horse's head that is cut into three cross sections.

Animal Inside Out exhibit
Pickled primate ... a woman views a plastinated gorilla

The elephant took a team of 30 three years and 64,000 man-hours to complete.

Animal Inside Out exhibit
Preserved ... a woman views a goat exhibit

The animals — which all died of natural causes — were preserved using plastination.

Animal Inside Out exhibit
Hopping mad ... a hare

Georgina Bishop, the museum's exhibition developer, said: "For us this is not grisly at all.

Animal Inside Out exhibition
Animal Inside Out ... a plastinated elephant, giraffe and gorilla on display at the exhibition

"This is about science, anatomy, physiology.”

The exhibition opens at the Natural History Museum on April 6, 2012, and runs until September 16, 2012.

A woman views a preserved shark
Jaws ... a woman views a shark

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