Did you know that the saliva you produce over a lifetime can fill two swimming pools? It’s likely not something you ever even consider as part of your everyday life, but once you step into the world of REAL BODIES at Bally’s, it’s all you want to think about. This exhibit, which explores the human condition, is designed to really make you stop and ponder what our existence on this planet is really about. And it succeeds wonderfully.

BODIES is separated into various sections, each dealing with different physical aspects of the human body—circulatory, muscular, nervous, etc. The exhibit begins with a coffin and a cabinet with different bones, including skulls, teeth, small hand bones and others. Right from the beginning, you start to feel an emotional connection to what’s around you; everything in BODIES has a connection to the past, and what we’ve been able to learn about ourselves from the experiences of the past.

True, some of that is purely clinical (“There’s enough carbon in the body to make 9,000 pencils,” “The volume of air that lungs inhale daily can fill approximately seven hot air balloons,” and “The average speed of a sneeze is about 100 miles per hour”), but once you get into the real heart of BODIES—the preserved cadavers in various states of activity—you begin to feel an incredible sense of connection, not just to the exhibit, but to everyone around you.

Twenty different human forms were put through a process called plastination that allows an incredibly detailed look at different systems, from circulatory to digestive, not to mention muscular movement. Some are playing sports; some are dissected in half to get a better look at the head and neck regions; and others offer demonstrations on how bones mend. A particularly powerful section of BODIES is the “Beginnings” gallery, which contains several displays of fetuses in various stages of early development.

There are also sections devoted to relationships, love and death. BODIES is like no other exhibit you’ve experienced. It will stay with you long after you’ve left Las Vegas.

And there’s a recent addition to BODIES: COVID-19 content, including 3D printed COVID-19 virus models and a short film explaining how the virus reacts to your body and how it is spread. As you make your way through the various sections, you’ll be able to read quick facts about the virus and how it affects each of the different body systems. The content was created with the assistance of Dr. Anna Q. Yaffee, who works as an emergency medicine physician and epidemiologist in Atlanta.

“I am excited to share with the public the amazing work that Dr. Yaffee and our team created to enhance the exhibition in an effort to answer everyday questions about COVID-19,” said CEO of Imagine Exhibitions Tom Zaller. “Our goal is to share with people the current findings about how this new virus affects the different systems of the body ... The hope is that we all come out of the exhibition knowing a little more than when we went in.”

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