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Cadaver exhibit in Framingham draws criticism
(Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff)
The exhibit opened this week on Route 30.
By Erica Noonan, Globe Staff
An unusual traveling exhibit featuring dead bodies is creating a stir in Framingham, where it has moved into a former computer store on Route 30.
"BODIES ... The Exhibition" opened to the public this week. The Framingham show features the body parts of about two dozen people preserved with silicone.
One critic has been picketing outside. Aaron Ginsburg, 57, of Sharon says the exhibit is "an affront to the dead and to the living."
But the exhibit owner, Atlanta-based Premier Exhibitions, defends the BODIES exhibit as an innovative experience exploring "the wonder of the human form," saying it is currently enjoying successful runs in New York City; San Diego, Calif.; and Tampa, Fla., among other cities.
BODIES arrives in Boston's suburbs less than a year after the Museum of Science in Boston mounted the rival exhibition "Body Worlds," the original cadaver display show. About 550,000 guests viewed the display by the time it closed in January, a museum spokeswoman said.
Read more about the BODIES exhibit in tomorrow's Globe West.
