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Museum where human bodies stripped of skin is the attraction opens in Berlin

A plastinated human body is displayed during a press preview prior to the opening of "Body Worlds" permanent exhibition by German anatomist Gunther von Hagens at the Menschen Museum in Berlin February 17, 2015. REUTERS

BERLIN: A permanent museum showing preserved corpses stripped of skin to reveal the complexity of the human body opens in Berlin on Wednesday.

The brainchild of German anatomist Gunther von Hagens and his wife Angelina Whalley, the museum displays cadavres infused with silicon rubber and resin in a process known as "plastination", that was invented by von Hagens himself.

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