Balthazar http://www.balthazar.skovde.se/
A Sience Center in Skövde in Sweden has commissioned an exhibition from Lekplatsbolaget with the theme "The Human Beeing". The core of the exhibition is a 5 meter high model of a human heart, where you can crawl through blood vessels and valves. Balthazar is addressed to children of all ages, but the exhibition is primarily for grades 7-9. Vision is that educators should be able to carry out coronary surgery and install a pacemaker, etc. with the children.
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John has built a model which we then scale up to a giant heart.
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Profiles of plywood and strips of masonite create the shape.
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The inspector Sven Erik comes along and a safety case is starting to take shape.
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All covered with chicken wire and it was time to run the whole caboodle to the plastics specialist Jerry for plastic wrapping. When the plastic is complete, the entire shape is to be disposed.
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Jerry has begun the plastic work and decorative painter Alex sees what is to be painted.
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Plastic covering, sanding, plastering, plastic wrapping,,,, How many layers? Jerry is the only one who knows. |
After the painting the heart was transported to Balthazar, circulation was painted on the floor, blinking nerve signals and pounding heartbeat was mounted into.
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At the heart educators can demonstrate what happens if you get a heart attack and how to make heart surgery with balloon catheter.
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Children can crawl into your heart and implant a pacemaker giant. Of course, the heart starts to beat normally when it is implanted. |
   
In a project at Balthazar, pupils do sketches of comets wich John Wiking turns to sculptures.
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Halley's comet made by Ivar. |
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