Maybe it’s hard to imagine nowadays, but in the past, dissections of the body on behalf of science were total taboos. Both cultural and historical. The “Transparent Man” or in German the “Gläserner Mensch” offered an alternative way of gaining knowledge of the interior of the human body.

Under the transparent plastic skin of this life-size body, a light metal mould of a human skeleton is found, together with artificial internal organs and the arterial, venous and lymphatic systems. All of them coloured and accurately shaped and arranged. "The Transparent Man" anatomy model revolutionized self-perception. The transparent model of a human body has been on display in the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden since 1930.