A controversial exhibit is coming to Atlanta. For the first time in our area, what has only been available to the medical profession, will be open to the public.

The first of 21 full, real human-body specimens will be on display to educate people about their bodies.

Dr. Roy Glover with "Bodies...The Exhibition" says, “To see their body, to understand how it's put together, how it functions, the impact disease has on their body, and how to better take care of it.”

From head to toe, every bone, muscle and organ is revealed. Exhibit officials say the display is a form of art.

Glover says, “Especially when you begin to look inside of the body, you'll see that it's very, very complex.”

Sadie Fields with the Christian Coalition of Georgia is opposed to the exhibit, saying, “I am just shocked that someone under the guise of art would be denigrating the human body to this degree. I think it is not honoring the dead.”

Fields says the exhibit has nothing to do with art or medical science.

Fields says, “I think you can get that from illustrations and medical journals and in books. You don't need to have an actual human body exposed like this. I think it's obscene.”

Dr. Glover says, “Our intention is to make these specimens as friendly for people to come and see as possible. And people start to lose their inhibitions when they come through and start to look.”

Exhibition officials say children who attend should be accompanied by a parent or teacher who can explain what they're seeing. The exhibition opens March 4th at the Civic Center in downtown Atlanta and will showcase 21 whole-body specimens and more than 250 organs and partial bone specimens.