Sounds gross, but if you are looking for an educational vacation destination suitable for (most of) your family I might just have the golden ticket.
You’ll have to fly to the Netherlands to get in, but according to the creators of “Corpus,” the combination amusement park/health museum, your efforts will be justly rewarded.
The new family-friendly attraction opened in Oegstgeest (located 21 miles southeast of Amsterdam) two weeks ago and the site is already overflowing with visitors. The structure is home to a 115-foot high seated human figure and all the walls and halls are modeled with fiberglass to resemble a person’s innards.
The park’s designers say the magnitude of the exhibits give visitors the sensation of being shrunk much like the characters of the classic science fiction film “Fantastic Voyage.” The journey begins when guests walk through a wound in the giant figure’s calf. Once inside, they view diagrams that show what happens when a wood splinter pierces the skin. From there it’s on to a display on digestion, featuring the Dutch favorite—cheese. Visitors are then treated to a video showing how stomach acid dissolves the cheese chunks into curds’. Guests then look on as the curds travel through a hallway-size intestinal system, which is highlighted with lights and narration.
While the cheese makes its way down the body guests move onward and upwards to hands on exhibits featuring the heart, lungs, mouth, ears, and nose. (How many kids can say they spent their summer vacation climbing into a massive nose, enjoying the smell of fresh hay, then feeling the wind blast on their necks when the display “sneezes”?)
Other exhibits provide useful information on health, diet, and fitness. In addition, kids can participate in dozens of museum games, including one where players attempt to knock out bacteria on a big screen display by tossing bean bags at them. The museum has “toys” for adults too. Machines let parents monitor their hearts while they exercise, or measure blood pressure, heart rate and body mass index.
Admission to Corpus is $25.50 for adults, $21 for children under 14. And a word of warning: Children younger than 8 are not allowed in.
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