I saw it last summer when I went to Houston to visit family. But I think some of the displays were not respectful of the donors. I thought the poker players sitting around a poker table wasn't dignified. The reaction of most children to seeing it was laughter.
I have to admit that when I heard about this in the past (and, indeed, in the recent past), I was really disgusted and grossed out. However, I am now studying to become a personal fitness trainer and am studying anatomy extensively. My yuck factor and my disgust factor are still there, I have to admit (this still remains mini-morgue material to me), but the temptation to go see this now, based upon what I’m learning (and marveling at...God is truly amazing!) is also there. I won’t go...but I’m tempted to!
I didn’t have that particular reaction, but I guess I could understand kids feeling that way.
My main reaction was that I was expecting something like a frozen autopsy in progress, and it was nothing like that. It was instead of a way of truly appreciating the complex structure of our bodies that arguable involved elements of art.
I found it very informative, much more so than looking at color pages in an antomy book.
The one display of the complete nervous sytem alone, floating like a ghost was staggering.