I wasn't going to comment on Body Worlds, but thought I'd better -- you
might want to actually speak to staff at the CA Science Cetner before you
use this as an example.  My nephew in law works there and when we discussed
it, he said (if I remember correctly) that the staff was pleasantly
surprised at how LITTLE controversy it generated.
Candace Perry
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  RE:  Controversial Exhibits and Videos

  Keni -

  You didn't list Body Worlds:  The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human
Bodies by artist (?) Gunther von Hagens.  It is showing at the Museum of
Science and Industry in Chicago right now.  I am simultaneously fascinated
and revulsed.  A lot depends on my mood.  For instance, I just ate a burrito
and the pictures on the website are rather unattractive at the moment!  :-)
Here's the link:  http://www.koerperwelten.de/en/pages/ausstellung_usa.asp

  Denise Lajetta, MA
  Associate Curator

  Kluge-Ruhe Collection of Aboriginal Art, UVA
  400 Worrell Drive (PANTOPS)
  Peter Jefferson Way
  Charlottesville, VA  22911

  tel.  434.244.0234
  fax  434.244.0235
  http://www.virginia.edu/kluge-ruhe/

  At 05:20 PM 2/3/2005, you wrote:

    Hello all,

    I have two separate and slightly related questions.  I have been
teaching an introduction to museums course for the past three years.  One of
the assignments I have students do is research and present on a
Controversial Exhibit or an ethical dilemma.  This works well when my
enrollment is down, but the course is gaining in popularity and I'm running
out of controversial exhibits.  I'm wondering what exhibits members of the
list could suggest.  They are covering "Enola Gay", "Sensation", and "Old
Glory, the American Flag in Contemporary Art" as well as some controversial
exhibit topics, such as sex, Mapplethorpe, and displaying nudes.  What other
exhibits come to mind?

    Second, I am looking for suggestions for museum videos.  Not videos with
museums, or videos by museums about their collections/exhibits, but videos
about a museum.  I have one from The Heard Museum, which is great, and I
have some recordings from the PBS series "Great Museums" (some episodes are
helpful, others not so much).  Any suggestions?

    Thanks,
    Keni Sturgeon
    Jensen Arctic Museum
    Western Oregon University
    Monmouth, OR 97361

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