Hands down my favorite part of my most favorite museum as a child (but the fairy castle there was a close second) thisbelongsinamuseum: A VALENTINE HEART (VEINS AND ARTERIES INCLUDED) *CHOCOLATE HEARTS, RED ROSES AND TEDDY BEAR EXTRA* At the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago visitors could walk through a giant replica of the human heart to watch its principal parts work as they do in one’s own body and actually hear it throb. The big walk-through heart had been a popular fixture since 1954, but was replaced with a digital projection in 2009. View high resolution

Hands down my favorite part of my most favorite museum as a child (but the fairy castle there was a close second)

thisbelongsinamuseum:

A VALENTINE HEART (VEINS AND ARTERIES INCLUDED)

*CHOCOLATE HEARTS, RED ROSES AND TEDDY BEAR EXTRA*

At the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago visitors could walk through a giant replica of the human heart to watch its principal parts work as they do in one’s own body and actually hear it throb. The big walk-through heart had been a popular fixture since 1954, but was replaced with a digital projection in 2009.

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    Matters of the heart.
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    this reminds me of the giant heart in the franklin institute in philly
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    I am Joe’s grossly enlarged heart with children walking through it….
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