Amazing New Additions to Amazing Me Exhibit at Hands On!
JOHNSON CITY/TRI-CITIES – Hands On! Regional Museum opens several new additions to the Amazing Me permanent exhibit with a ribbon-cutting at the Museum on Friday, July 10th at 3:30 pm. Each of these new additions will enhance the inter-activity of Amazing Me and the educational programs offered in the exhibit.
Working on a large operation table similar to the child’s Operation game, Hands On! visitors can now role-play as surgeons while learning about different organs in the human body. Creative signs provide information on these organs, and their functions and places within the human body. Another creative, interactive component of Amazing Me allows children and adults to make impressions of their bodies on a 3-D pin wall, with the body’s shape appearing in relief on the pin wall. Both the Operation table and the pin wall are sponsored by Mountain States Health Alliance.
Visitors can also meet Ophelia, a unique bionic skeleton, in Amazing Me at Hands On! Ophelia is one of only three bionic skeletons in the United States, and she displays several mechanical replacements which can be surgically added to the human body. Created by Ed Mueller, Ophelia, like the other bionic skeletons displayed at the FDA and Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of American History, displays an artificial heart, hip and knee replacements, and other surgical additions on her skeleton.
“Amazing Me, one of the museum’s original exhibits, is one of our most popular,” said Kristine Carter, Marketing Manager for Hands On! Regional Museum. “This is the second of three upgrades that have been planned to help promote better overall health for our visitors. Hands On! is pleased to offer these fun, new exhibits for our visitors, and we invite the community to join us as we cut the ribbon for these great new additions to Amazing Me.”
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