Discovery Place Museum is science based museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. While many may think: science and art? whhhattt? The two subjects actually have a lot in common. At the current time, Discovery Place is showing a new exhibit called: Gunher Von Hagens' Body Worlds and The Cycle of Life, that features the human body (http://bodyworlds.discoveryplace.org/) in various states and stages.
For an intermediate drawing class, AP, or National Art Honors Society, visiting the Body World exhibit will be an eye opening cross curriculum experience that students would be unable to receive in a classroom setting. Sure, students have see replicas of the human skeleton before, but have they seen "more than 100 real human specimens preserved through the process of plastination"? What an interesting exhibit for students to be able to interact with.
Students would be given a sketch book assignment (depending on how long we were in the museum itself, would determine the number of sketches required) where they drew in detail, specimens from the exhibit and labeled their parts. The structure of the human body is essential to know when addressing proportion in figure drawing and these observations from life with greatly assist students in later drawing and anatomy classes. Connecting the arts to science is a great way to incorporate multi disciplined studies.
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