Experience the creepy crawly lives that go on around you, on top of you and inside of you. The exhibition teems with living – and dead – surprises that you'll recognise from daily life as well as some new acquaintances.
There's fun and games for the entire family, both for those who like spiders and those who are a little bit frightened of them. Pay a visit to your closest neighbours – observe them, play with them, and compete with them.
Discover the fascinating and thought-provoking universe of the CreepyCrawly creatures. From flies and ants a hundred times thicker than one strand of your hair all the way to bacteria and fungus a hundred times thinner. Take a hair from your head and notice the thickness of it: can you imagine a life existing on one strand of hair? You'll find that it can – one strand of hair is the standard scale of measurement used throughout the exhibition.
Swat a fly, make your way through an ant colony, and determine what feels nice and what feels disgusting. Watch maggots eat a steak, test your knowledge and learn about your phobias – or examine the dust bunnies from your own home and those of celebrities to see if they have creepy crawlies. Spy on your bed mates – did you know that your body is their home? Step into the reduction machine and meet your tiny new peers if you dare – then send an electronic postcard to your friends. Find out why food grows long hair.
Come and earn your Creeponaut certificate.
It's creepier and crawlier than you think.
Come out and discover some of the many micro-organisms and creepy-crawly parasites that live on you and inside of you. With the help of the technology behind the Reduction Machine, you’ll be reduced to the size of the tiny guests...
Send your grandmother a postcard that lets her know how small you’ve become. Be photographed with some of your little ’friends’ from home in the Reduction Machine.
Get your very own Creeponaut Certificate. You can only become a true Creeponaut after you’ve answered all of the questions and collected all of the stamps at each of the Creeponaut stations. Get your Certificate approved at the...
Find out how good you are at swatting flies! You don’t have a chance to match the reaction of a fly.
What do you see when you swat a fly? What’s the yellow stuff? How about the black stuff?
Bluebottle flies love to serve steak to their kids. Watch as the lives of the flies unfold in our fly terrarium.
Greenbottles are the type of fly most commonly seen around our kitchens, but their larvae can also be found in hospitals where they help clean wounds. It sounds disgusting but it works – find out how.
The Zoetrope helps you see the lightning-quick way in which flies and fleas can move. You can also draw a spider doing deep knee bends!
Zoom in on the leaf-cutting ant colony and watch them as they carry out their daily tasks. You\'ll find nannies, weeders, leaf collectors, garbage collectors and soldiers.
Be like an ant and use your sense of smell to navigate. You’ll follow the smell of peppermint to get through the labyrinth, but watch out – other (seductive) smells might lead you astray!
Have a seat in our cosy living room and take a look at Family Photographs I. We’ve put together a collection of photographs and biographies of a number of the strange creatures that share your home. Choose your favourite!
What gives you the creeps the most – larvae in an open wound, dust mites living in your duvet or a cute little spider crawling up your leg? Test yourself and find out.
Are you brave enough to stick your finger in one of our CreepyCrawly boxes? Whether you get stung or not depends on whether you think you’re supposed to – or not…
See the fascinating process that takes place when food spoils. You can also try taking a whiff of our ’smell bottles’. What will it be – sour cream, sweet-smelling strawberries or rotten fish?
Find out more about some of the creatures that share your kitchen with our zoom microscope.
Go hunting in water from a flower vase. Just select the water sample – and it’s happy hunting with the microscope in the largest CreepyCrawly magnification!
Commemorate your Micro Hunter ’catch’ and send the picture to yourself or a friend.
Have a seat at the dinner table and take a look at Family Photographs II. We’ve put together a collection of photographs and biographies of a number of the creatures that you share your kitchen with. Find out who likes cat food...
Do you know how high a flea can jump? Or how many bacteria live on and inside of you? Test your knowledge of these and other fascinating facts about the CreepyCrawly creatures that live in your house.
Pediculus humanus capitis (x 600). Climb up on the giant louse (x 600). Grab a hold of its hair and swing –- or just admire it!
Take a journey of discovery with the zoom microscope. You’ll find a collection of the tiny guests you may be hosting right this second – some living, some dead. You can also examine yourself more closely.
Who\'s hiding in your bed? The video microscope brings you up close to the dust bunnies and other guests in your bed. Take a closer look at the dust mites – you might even see some of them running from the glare of the microscope!
Go hunting in bed or on your own body with the video microscope. Take a picture when you see something interesting and send it along to yourself or your friends. You can also participate in two exciting contests.
Test the dust mite environment in your bedroom. Is your bedroom a desert, lacking the food and water that the dust mites need to survive? Or is your bedroom a dust mite paradise offering unlimited food and drink that allows the...
No moisture, no dust mites! Most of the moisture in your home is produced by you and your activities. But how?
How many dead skin cells do you produce each year for dust mite food? Take a guess – and lift!
Take a seat at the dust bunny table and have a look at Family Pictures III. We’ve put together a collection of photographs and biographies of a number of the creatures that live on and inside of you.
