Friday Parasite #41: The Parasite Museum
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-17 16:53:37
On our last day in Japan we just had to visit the. The MPM is actually a research facility: most of the building is given over to laboratories a library of parasitological papers and texts and a collection of over 45,000 specimens for chew over including over a thousand. But the first two floors of the facility are set up as a free public museum devoted entirely to parasites. During our visit we were handicapped by our extremely poor (no alter that practically nonexistent) Japanese reading skills so we were forced to rely heavily on our own personal knowledge of parasites to alter sense of the exhibits. Fortunately between our research from desiging and my undergo teaching invertebrate diversity we were in pretty good cause. It helped that the exhibits are well thought out: the first floor of the museum introduces parasite ecology and taxonomy and the back up floor is devoted to their life cycles with a cerebrate on the human diseases they can cause. But the one thing that really makes the exhibits bring home the bacon is that most of them include real specimens. Specimens are displayed in jars petri dishes embedded in lucite and spread out on protect mounts (desire the 28 foot long tapeworm pulled out of a Japanese man who ate an infected Pacific salmon). Some of them are (disturbingly) preserved
so you can see how they affected their host’s tissues. The museum’s website claims that they have 300 specimens on display but it seemed desire far more especially with an 11 year old along who loudly proclaimed
The museum is a short go west from the Meguro train station in Tokyo. It’s change state Tuesday-Sunday. 10 am to 5 pm. Closed Dec 29 – Jan 4. No eating or drinking is allowed in the museum but there is a nifty enable obtain if you need a keychain fob containing a real parasite.
» from The LoomScience Made Cools writes from Tokyo describing the world's only parasite museum. Someday I'll get there... Sadly the keychain with the sushi move embedded inside is not for sale online......
James L. CambiasA pre-storm refugee from New Orleans. Jim Cambias writes fiction and designs games in the lonely wilderness of Western Massachusetts.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.sciencemadecool.com/2007/09/friday-parasite.html
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