Harsco Science Center Exhibits
Health and Wellness
Health and Wellness is about the most sophisticated piece of equipment the world has ever known - the human body. This seamless blend of imagination and solid scientific fact explores anatomy, the five senses, medical technology, and wellness. Its dramatic icon exhibit is a hologram of the human body, a magic window inside the body, which reveals skin, muscles, the organs and bones.

The Gallery of Anatomy is a hands-on, minds-on exploration of the seven interconnected systems of the human body. It explains how each system works and how they all work together, and how the body functions from the macro level of muscle, bone, and organ to the micro level of cell and neuron.

The Five Senses demonstrates how our information about the world is derived from our senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. The Five Senses Gallery explores how they work, the mysteries of perception, the relationships between the brain and the senses, and between perception and the arts.

Medical Technology investigates the developments in medicine that have dramatically extended human lifespan in this century including new scanning technologies and other innovative diagnostics, experiments with treatments such as micro-surgery, bionics and prosthetics, and how pharmaceuticals are informed by a new understanding of how the body operates at the micro level of cell and molecule.

Wellness spotlights individual decisions and healthy choices. Visitors test their own physical and mental fitness, assess their lifestyles, discover the causes of disease, the health risks of drugs, alcohol, and stress, and the consequences of the deadly game of AIDS Roulette. A special video features teens talking directly to other teens about health risks and substance abuse.