Micropia
World's only museum dedicated to microbes, with live specimens and interactive microscopes.
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This guide to Micropia in Amsterdam starts with a Dutch cloth merchant named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who scraped debris from his own teeth in 1683 and became the first person to see bacteria through a lens he ground himself. No one believed a draper from Delft could know anything about an invisible world, and it took three more centuries before anyone built a museum for what he found.
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