Body exhibit
It’s not your usual exhibit. For one thing, it includes a 78-inch skull, a collection of teeth under glass, a 16th-century anatomy text, and a Civil War–era autopsy kit whose saws, chisels, and knives are remarkably similar to those used today. “Body of Knowledge,” an exhibit about five centuries of anatomy and dissection, has been installed this spring on the Science Center’s second floor. It is partly eccentric (a poster of a kneeling skeleton), partly strange (the head cast of a hanged murderer), and also tech savvy: A digital gallery guide available for mobile devices is keyed to numbered icons in a 31-feature app. Armed with an average smartphone, a viewer can click and dig into extra layers of history and culture as she strolls among the pictures, instruments, old texts, and oddities under glass. The app adds more of the weird and the wonderful. Icon 1 delves into initial-letter woodcuts in...