<P> The exhibit is set up so that one starts at the skeletal system , and more layers ( muscular , nervous , circulatory , digestive , respiratory , urinary , and reproductive systems ; as well as fetal development and the treated body ) are added in successive rooms . Containing about twenty bodies in total , each exhibition uses real human bodies that have been preserved permanently by a process called `` polymer preservation '' ( commonly referred to as `` plastination '' ) so that they will not decay . This exhibition is organized by the publicly traded corporation , Premier Exhibitions Incorporated , which also staged Bodies Revealed first in Seoul , South Korea and more recently in the US . The company received the cadavers for research from the Chinese government , who donated them because all the bodies at the time of death had no close next of kin or immediate families to claim the bodies . The dissections took place at the Dalian University in Liaoning , China and the resulting specimens were leased to Premier Exhibitions for the five - year duration of the show . </P>
<P> The exhibit is set up so that one starts at the skeletal system , and more layers ( muscular , nervous , circulatory , digestive , respiratory , urinary , and reproductive systems ; as well as fetal development and the treated body ) are added in successive rooms . Containing about twenty bodies in total , each exhibition uses real human bodies that have been preserved permanently by a process called `` polymer preservation '' ( commonly referred to as `` plastination '' ) so that they will not decay . This exhibition is organized by the publicly traded corporation , Premier Exhibitions Incorporated , which also staged Bodies Revealed first in Seoul , South Korea and more recently in the US . The company received the cadavers for research from the Chinese government , who donated them because all the bodies at the time of death had no close next of kin or immediate families to claim the bodies . The dissections took place at the Dalian University in Liaoning , China and the resulting specimens were leased to Premier Exhibitions for the five - year duration of the show . </P>
where did the bodies come from for the bodies exhibit
where did the bodies come from for the bodies exhibit
from the Chinese government
from the Chinese government