© 2026 All Rights reserved WUSF
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Our daily newsletter, delivered first thing weekdays, keeps you connected to your community with news, culture, national NPR headlines, and more.

Florida Museum Puts Cadavers on Display

More than 12,000 people have paid $20 this week to see dead bodies. It's a new exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, Fla., "Bodies, the Exhibition." It consists mainly of preserved cadavers with exposed muscles, bones, organs and tendons.

Guest:

Michael Sappol, author of Traffic of Dead Bodies; curator-historian at the National Library of Medicine

Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Tags
Thanks to you, WUSF is here — delivering fact-based news and stories that reflect our community.⁠ Your support powers everything we do.