Health Exploration Station

The Saint Joseph Mercy Health Exploration Station is open for individuals and families to tour the exhibit gallery free of charge on the fourth Thursday of each month from 10am - 8pm September through May and 10am - 6pm June through August. You can expect to spend 40-60 minutes for the tour. An adult must accompany anyone under the age of 18.

To see a video of the Saint Joseph Mercy Health Exploration Station, click here.

When groups come to the Saint Joseph Mercy Health Exploration Station they will see:

State-of-the-art interactive classrooms where programs take place.

The Exhibit Gallery is designed like the inside of a giant human.

There is a ribcage that goes all the way to the ceiling.

Participants can walk under the ribcage.

In the ribcage there is a giant heart. If participants put their hands on the bar under the heart they can hear their own heartbeat.

A giant lung that explains the disease of asthma.

There is a big green face on the wall -- that is the beginning of the digestive system.

Participants can follow the red path on the carpet (esophagus) and pretend they are a piece of food being swallowed.

At the end of the path there is a giant stomach. Participants can crawl through the stomach and end up in the small intestine maze.

At the end of the small intestine maze there is a green tunnel (large intestine) to crawl through.

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