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  Monday  January 26  2004    12: 50 AM

teeny little things

The Micropolitan Museum

 

 
For several centuries artists have depicted the human figure, still-lifes, landscapes or non-figurative motives. One subject has been widely neglected all those years:
Micro organisms!

The Micropolitan Museum finally exhibits these often overlooked works of art which are only visible with the aid of the microscope. Curator Wim van Egmond has collected the finest microscopic masterpieces nature has ever produced during eons of natural selection and other life-sculpting mechanisms.
 

 


Diatoms also live attached to a substrate.
These sessile diatoms can often be found
as brown scum growing on red algae
or other larger organisms.

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