The Museum.... After Dark

Last night, Lindsay and I joined her co-worker and his girlfriend and headed to OMSI After Dark. OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) hosted an event: Shaken and Stirred. Basically, you pay $6, get 10 tokens and a shot glass and can try a vast array of liquor from local distilleries. It was a party. Hundreds of people flooded the museum for Shaken and Stirred, the Body Worlds exhibit, and other activities.

Lindsay and I decided it'd be in our best interest to avoid sampling over 20 liquors, so her co-worker gave us a few tokens so we could try a few. (We sampled a delicious bloody mary made with spicy vodka. An excellent brunch drink option.)

Whoever thought of hosting a night at the museum (complete with beer, wine, liquor and food) for the 21+ crowd is a genius!

After wandering around Shaken and Stirred, we headed into the Body Worlds exhibit. It's a traveling exhibition of preserved human bodies and body parts that are prepared using a technique called plastination to reveal inner anatomical structures. It's a controversial exhibit, but I enjoyed it. It was even better than I thought it would be because both Lindsay and her co-worker actually understand the human body and anatomy, so they enlightened me when I had questions.

On a human level, however, I couldn't help but want to know who the people featured were. Here I was, looking at their plasticized corpses, fascinated by their bodies, but I wanted to know how old they were, what they looked like, where they were from, what kind of people they were, and how they died. Of course, that's not the purpose of the exhibit, but I couldn't help but wonder.