Turtle Bay

Grossology
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exhibition overview

Eeeuhhh, gross!!!!!!!

Sometimes it’s stinky; sometimes it’s crusty; and sometimes it’s slimy.  Explore why your body produces mushy, oozy, crusty, scaly and stinky gunk at Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body, presented by Shasta Regional Medical Center, live at Turtle Bay Exploration park, Summer 2011.  Based on the best-selling book Grossology, by Sylvia Branzei, this science-in-disguise exhibition uses more than 20 interactive displays to tell you the good, the bad and the downright ugly about the human body and how it works. 

• Visit the Vomit center and learn the many reasons humans vomit
• Become a dust particle and walk through a giant nose to learn about air filtering, air heating, olfaction and mucus production
• Crawl and slide through a 30+ foot-long 3-D model of the digestive system
• Learn how boogers are formed by launching dirt balls into a larger-than-life nose.  Be careful though, it may sneeze and shoot back a slew of dirt balls!
• Play surgery and attempt to remove organ parts from a body without touching the sides of the patient

Are you ready for the yuckiest - and hottest - exhibition of the summer?  Grossology opens at Turtle Bay Exploration Park, April 28, 2011. 

Grossology is a ticketed exhibition.  Admission is $3 for members (Adults, Children & Seniors).  Guest admission is $5 for adults and $3 for Children and Seniors (plus Park admission, $14 for Adults and $10 for Children and Seniors - Park admission is FREE for Members).

SPECIAL MEMBER-ONLY OPENING CELEBRATION

April 27, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.  Members enjoy discounted admission ($2 for all members), light snacks, give-aways and special activities all evening, including flubber, fake snot and Wii Operation.

Downloadable Materials

• Teacher Documents

  Feelin' Queasy (Classroom) Feelin' Queasy (Exhibit)		Your Birthday Suit (Classroom) Your Birthday Suit (Exhibit)
  I Gotta Go! (Classroom) I Gotta Go! (Exhibit)		The Nose Knows (Classroom) The Nose Knows (Exhibit)
  In One End and Out the other (Classroom) In One End and Out the other (Exhibit)		It's a Gas (Classroom) It's a Gas (Exhibit)

Special support provided by US Bank.  Major support provided by Shasta Pathology Associates & Nuclear Medicine Associates, Burch Physical Therapy, Redding E.N.T & Allergy Center - Dr. Jory & Julie Kaplan, and the Best Western Plus - Hilltop Inn.  Additional support provided by Redding Endoscopy Center, Redding Urologic Associates, Dr. Ron Reece, Paul Spinka MD, Physicians Plan Weight Management, George H. Domb, MD-ENT and The Osborne Family.

Media sponsors: Results Radio LLC & KRCR, News Channel 7

GROSSOLOGY Exhibit created and produced by Advanced Exhibits, a division of Advanced Animations LLC in collaboration with Science World British Columbia.

PSS! and Grossology are registered trademarks of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

Grossology teaser created by KRCR, News Channel 7