Media Advisory/Photo Op - BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart

You'll Never Look at People the Same Way Again

TORONTO , Oct. 5 /CNW/ - Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart is an all-new exhibition that will reveal through the lenses of anatomy, cardiology, psychology and culture how the heart nourishes, regulates and sustains life. The exhibition will give Science Centre visitors a profound insight into the human body with over 200 human specimens including whole-body plastinates, organs and translucent body slices.

Please join us for a special media preview of BODY WORLDS & The Story of the Heart, and the North American premiere of a striking new animal plastinate - a giraffe measuring 5.60 metres from head to feet, which took 6650 hours and two years to complete. Media credentials or a business card with media affiliation is required for admission to this preview. Filming will require signed agreement forms, see link for download of forms:

http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/media/assets/OSC-2009_User-Agreement-to-Film.pdf

http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/media/assets/OSC-2009_User-Agreement-for-Photographers.pdf

    
    What:   Special media preview of the exhibition BODY WORLDS & The Story
            of the Heart

    Who:    - Lesley Lewis, CEO, Ontario Science Centre
            - Dr. Angelina Whalley, creative and conceptual designer of
              Gunther von Hagens' BODY WORLDS exhibitions and the director of
              the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg, Germany

    When:   Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009
            10:00am

    Where:  Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Road, Toronto
            (TV crews may use the valley parking: Enter off Gateway Drive
            South of the main entrance, drive down the hill to the security
            entrance)
                         www.ontariosciencecentre.ca
    

This exhibition is presented by National Bank Financial Group and has been financially assisted by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Tourism, and through the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund of the Ministry of Culture, administered by the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund Corporation.

For further information: To RSVP and schedule interviews please contact: Ellen Flowers, Media Relations Officer, [phone], Cell day of: [phone], [email protected]; Christine Crosbie, Media Relations Officer, [phone], Cell day of: [phone], [email protected]