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Small but information-packed museum lets you
Get to the heart of the matter

Story by JAMIE LEE PRICER / photo by DAN MACMEDAN

You have three guesses and the first two don't count. Question: What is with you every second of your life, and, although you can hear it, you can't see it?

Answer: Your heart.

If you have even the slightest interest in how your ticker works, visit Heartland, the desert's smallest but most intricate museum at Heart Inshtute of the Desert in Rancho Mirage.

Everything here is heart oriented; from the shape of the building to the red plastic piggy-bank heart where you drop your donations

    When you enter,there's no doubt where you are. Walk through the institute's main entrance, make a quick left and head for the thing that looks like Godzilla's heart. It's actually an enlarged human atrioventricular valve carved from urethane foam covered with fiberglass skin, the same as a custom race car.

    Your footstep into the two-story-tall valve triggers the deep resonating sound of a beating heart. White tendinous strands, looking like panels from a collapsing parachute, are anchored on magnified papillary muscles. Proportionately, you are smaller than an ant.

    The overwhelming, but fun, effect is a prelude to 10 more interactive exhibits.

A model of the inside of the heart, seems massive compared to Rita Goodnote.

    "Our focus here is to educate patrons about heart disease and reduce heart disease mortality," says Adam Rubinstein, museum curator and designer and creator of most of the exhibits. He also is director of medical illustration for the institute.

    Some 155,000 visitors, many of them school children, have toured Heartland since i opened in 1988. The museum has developed one exhibit at a time and now fills its compact space. "We know where we are going to expand," Rubinstein says, pointing to a patio on the institute's west side, "but we haven't started fund-raising yet." The fun continues straight out of "Star Trek." You activate an enlarged coronary artery display by placing your hand on a lighted wall panel. You step into a textured pink tube enlarged 1,427 times, replete with enough cholesterol plaque to discourage any further visits to McDonald's. The plaque inflates to show how arteries clog and heart attacks occur. A comparatively mundane diagram of the circulatory system shows the path of blood through your heart and lungs.

    It's hard not to touch a marvelous soft panel filled with colorful outer-space looking blobs, which turn out to be blood components. A smaller panel with push buttons tells you what they are and what they do. We've all heard of red blood cells and platelets, but how about eosinophils, neutrophils, basophils and monocytes?

    Have you been naughty or nice to your heart? Another display rates your personal risk for heart disease.

    A video tape housed in a duo of giant pears, each the size of a refrigerator, gives advice on low-fat, low-cholesterol food and how to reduce cholesterol levels and heart attack risk through diet.

Breyanna Wolf, 6, above, checks out the blood corpuscle wall and a video about how blood works.

    It's sort of a "how to pass on the chips and dips" message brought to you by the Palm Springs branch of Les Toques Blanches, a chef's organization.

    The only chair in the museum is at a self-test blood pressure station, the same as the ones you see in grocery and drug stores. Visitors squeeze soft black bulbs like those at the end of blood pressure cuffs to turn on adjacent lighted displays that explain hypertension causes and prevention.

Alex Sanchez, right, is seeing what its like inside a dogged artery.

    Blood pressure, one of the displays explains, is one of three major modifiable risk factors of heart disease; the other two are cigarette smoking and high blood cholesterol. Sobering side effects of high blood pressure are heart disease, stroke, kidney problems and artenosclerosis or hardening of the artenes.

    You can check out your heartbeat at another display. A diagram shows you where to place a stethoscope on your chest, and, if you do it properly, you'll hear amplified whooshes, rub-a-dub-dubs or lub-lubblubs. Push a selection of buttons to hear a variety of irregular heartbeats, like an atrial gallop or mitral regurgitation.

    Three giant cigarettes, each a bit smaller than a boxing bag, glow and puff smoke while a video describes the evils of smoking.


    The museum's newest exhibit, an animatronic beating heart perched on a mirrored podium, is about the size of an ostrich.


Marie De Juliis examines a model of the heart. The display offers all kinds of information about cardiac care.

    If you are a coronary artery bypass patient and want to get a firm, three-dimensional grasp of what is going to come and go during your surgery, this exhibit is for you. The intertwined network of blood vessels entering and exiting the heart are very clear.

    For all its interesting and instructional exhibits, even Heartland can't explain a simple cardiac problem most everyone suffers a time or two.

    How is it that your heart can break apart over love, but keep on ticking?

Jamie Lee Pricer has been a journalist in the Coachella Valley for 10 years.

All exhibits seen on this page produced by Adam Rubinstein.

Reprinted with permission.





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Veterinary Illustration of Skeletal System-
Veterinary Illustration of Digestive System-
Animated medical illustration of a blocked coronary artery-
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Open heart open-
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AIDS virus attacking t-cell-
Insect Illustration-
Veterinary Illustration of Muscular System-
Women with chest pain-
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