Tony Hill

Tony Hill is the DI at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, which is licensed by The HTA for public display. The HTA is responsible for licensing organisations that display bodies or tissue from deceased people.

"I am the Acting Director of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester so it is predominantly down to me to choose our exhibitions. Working with human tissue is not something we do every day, so applying for an HTA licence seemed a bit daunting. But the staff at the HTA helped and advised us every step of the way.

"The Body Worlds exhibition is a particularly sensitive one and the process of applying for a licence reassured me, and more importantly our board of trustees, that we had approached the necessary standards with rigour.

"We have had a phenomenal response from the public, with around 130,000 people through the door so far. It is definitely an educational tool and we have tied the exhibition into events on stop smoking day, kidney disease and issues around obesity. We were also giving out cards for the organ donor register and they were so popular we ran out."