At 09:11 AM 3/22/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Franklin Museum in Philly--back in the 70s (so it seems anyway) they had
>an enlarged walkthrough heart. You could enter it and follow the pathway
>that blood would follow to get oxygen.

        The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has(?) a similar exhibit if
I remember correctly. They also used to have on exhibit thinly sliced
horizontal sections of a cadaver, so that you could see the anatomical
positions of the organs, bones, and muscles relative to each other from
head to toe (I don't think that's still in an exhibit gallery though).
        As far as one exhibit being unforgettable, that's an easy one for me.
Growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, we went to the Smithsonian nearly every
weekend.  As a young kid, the African Bull Elephant mesmerized me every
time I saw it.  No matter which part of the Smithsonian we happened to be
concentrating on that weekened, I always dragged my parents to that
institutional icon.

Timothy Reed
Office of the State Archaeologist of Iowa
University of Iowa
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