REAL BODIES is the highly original and thought-provoking exhibition of human anatomy. It opens at Sloan Museum of Discovery July 7, 2023 through January 14, 2024. This will be the first time this international exhibit will be seen in Mid-Michigan. The opening of REAL BODIES will also mark the opening of the FUN Gallery, Sloan Museum’s 6000 square foot exhibition hall which will be used for special traveling exhibitions. The exhibit is sponsored by Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan.

This powerful exhibition explores life by displaying real, perfectly preserved human bodies in eleven themed galleries with more than 200 anatomical specimens. REAL BODIES invites visitors to explore the entire human experience, from the first breath to the last. The exhibition pushes boundaries while seamlessly blending art, science, and emotion as a museum of the Self. REAL BODIES reveals deep synergy between breathing, hunger, the rhythm of the heart, love, motion, thought, and medicine that makes each person unique.

The exhibition, produced by Imagine Exhibitions out of Atlanta, Georgia, has been recently updated to include the latest science-based information about COVID-19 in an effort to educate visitors on how SARS-CoV-2 impacts the major systems of human anatomy—from respiration to circulation. This new content was created by the Imagine Exhibitions team working alongside emergency medicine physicians and epidemiologists with experience in emerging infectious disease preparedness and response.

REAL BODIES opens to the public July 7, 2023 through January 14, 2024 from 10:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 12:15-5 p.m. Sundays, and late evening hours on the 2nd Thursday of each month from 10:15 a.m.-8 p.m.. 

Tickets will be sold at :15- and :45-minute increments for timed entry to allow for a more personal visitor experience. Tickets and information are at www.SloanLongway.org/Real-Bodies. Group reservations pf 20 or more people may be made at Reservations@SloanLongway.org, or by calling (810) 237-3409.  

About Sloan Museum of Discovery & Longway Planetarium
Sloan Museum of Discovery and Longway Planetarium are overseen by the non-profit Flint Institute of Science and History (F.I.S.H.) with a shared mission to engage communities on a learning journey in history and science. Located within the Flint Cultural Center Campus in Flint, Michigan, Sloan Museum of Discovery opened in July, 2022, with four primary hands-on learning galleries and one exhibition hall for special traveling exhibits. The original Sloan Museum opened in 1966 as the Sloan Panorama of Transportation, named after long-time General Motors president, chairman and CEO Alfred P. Sloan. The new Sloan Museum of Discovery is nearly twice the size at 107,000 square feet and completely re-built into a re-imagined world-class, hands-on science and history museum. Longway Planetarium, named for Robert T. Longway, a community leader and one of the men responsible for the development of the Flint Cultural Center, opened in 1958 and was totally renovated in 2015. Additional upgrades to Digistar 7 projection system were made in 2021. It remains the largest planetarium in Michigan. Classes on the solar system and general science are offered to school groups and the general public. Both institutions are supported in part by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and Michigan Arts and Culture Council (MACC). Educational programs are supported, in part, by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Enrichment Millage. Learn more at SloanLongway.org.