MOBILE, Ala. — Mix children, laughter and learning about gross stuff and you have a win-win situation.

Both children and adults have been getting “grossed out” at the Human Grossology (The impolite science of the human body) exhibit at the Gulf Coast Exploreum in Mobile. The exhibit began in October and will end Dec. 31.

Kids and adults have marveled over gigantic replicas of body parts, computer game technology, and hands-on fun. If gross things appeal to you, this may just be your ticket — to learn about science.

“If kids can have fun, they will learn,” said Exploreum Director of Marketing and Public Relations Brett Berg.

Science facts are sandwiched in between all the fun. “This is science in disguise,” Marketing and Public Relations Assistant Kristen Dreaper, said.

With so many questions kids have about the human body, this exhibit may answer some of their questions in an innovative way. For example, kids can learn about how waste material is removed from the blood or even how a sneeze works.

“Someone with a great deal of knowledge of kids must have planned the exhibit,” said parent volunteer William Knox of the Marietta Johnson Organic School.

“This is learning by doing, rather than just seeing, and having a hands-on interactive experience,” Berg said. Though it is mainly appeals to kids, “It brings out the kid in all of the adults,” Knox said.

Adults are sometimes still playing after the kids are finished, Berg said.

The exhibits are hands on. Skills on distinguishing bacteria smells from a mouth, armpit or a foot can be tested.

Eager participants can try to shoot fake boogers into an enormous nose with an air gun. A slide for youngsters allows them to enter through a fake stomach and end up in the fake intestines.

Take a sideways climb on the “wall of skin,” with footholds resembling fake zits, blisters and scabs. Arcade type games, computer activated games, and test your knowledge games are available.

“There is always a part of every man that never wants to grow up and go play and be a boy,” he said.

It is an easy humor exhibit, he said.

Docent Monica Kieffer said one game is reminiscent of a game called “Operation,” where removable body parts are placed in open spaces on a large cartoon-like “patient” body.

The exhibit is based on the book “Grossology” by Sylvia Branzei. The success of Animal Grossology at the Exploreum in 2005 was one of the reasons that the Human Grossology exhibit was brought in, Berg said.

Berg said the Exploreum is offering a special with the Grossology exhibit which they call “Pay once, play twice,” where you get a free return pass to the exhibit upon purchase of a ticket.