The Social Work “La Caixa” organizes in CosmoCaixa Madrid the exhibition 'Microvida. Beyond the human eye', based on the graphic work of photographer and biologist Rubén Duro. It is an interactive installation that through videos and photographs proposes a spectacular and surprising journey into that world so close and at the same time so distant, with moving images of microorganisms increased up to 10.000 times.

Even the 30 March 2013 CosmoCaixa Madrid hosts the exhibition 'Microvida. Beyond the human eye', a scientific sample, informative and highly interactive, that in a space of 800 m2 shows visitors the importance of microscopes and scientific microscopy for studying and observing nature when it is impossible to see with the naked eye. The exhibition shows how thanks to the advancement of science and technology we can enter a world so tiny that it would take a million of its inhabitants to occupy the same volume as the head of a pin.

The exhibition allows us to discover and bring to the general public this exciting hidden world of microscopic living beings, strange and different, but of great beauty, and check that, on its scale, systems of life as complex and diverse as ours are developed. The visitor can observe more than 15 audiovisual productions, more than 36 large-format photographs and more than 100 real samples of numerous examples of animals and microscopic plants, like mosquito larvae, head lice, water fleas, algae, stowaettes, Diatoms, hydrozoa, Protozoa, Etc. increased to 10.000 times.

The exhibition is based on the graphic work of photographer and biologist Rubén Duro (handle), who has explored the microscopic world using the dark field technique, getting aesthetically moving images of amazing individuals. In addition to relating different concepts, such as microbiology and optics, and to make elements available to the visitor so that he finds out for himself what a microscope is, the exhibition also aims to make the general public reflect on the importance of all living things in an ecosystem, even the little ones, and about the importance of microscopy within science.

Micrarium

It is an area where the visitor can experience for himself the adventure of searching for microscopic organisms and observing them as they please, to different increases, moving microscopic preparations. In it, thanks to interactive microscopes equipped with automatic systems for changing samples, and that have cctvs and television monitors, visitors may observe different microorganisms present in human skin.

The public can also observe live the different microorganisms that live in the water of a pond and on the sand of the beach. To do this, you can manipulate the zoom and focus of two microscopes, with the option to capture images and send them to any email address. In addition, you can participate with the images captured in a photography contest. A whiteboard allows the little ones to color lice, fleas, worms and other tiny beings and throw them into a digital pond (a reactive soil), where these microorganisms will be able to swim as they please, getting around the visitors' footsteps.

eat, reproduce, move…

The exhibition has four themed booths in which audiovisual productions are projected on the daily life of microscopic beings. These audiovisuals allow you to know, through video images and explanatory locutions, the characteristics of the tiny world, delving into aspects such as food, locomotion, reproduction and diversity of life. They also show the complexity of microscopic living beings and the curious interrelationships that are established between organisms that share the same natural system.

Microcosmic chill out

The tour concludes with a chill out area that invites the visitor to look, listen, feel..., letting yourself be carried away and immersed in the microscopic universe. This space is equipped with swivel chairs, and the public can enjoy an audiovisual show consisting of still images and video sequences projected on several screens, all this enlivened by an original soundtrack created especially for this exhibition.

The exhibition has been designed and produced by the museum company Expografic, who has counted on the collaboration and technical support of Charmex for the design of the multimedia system and the supply and control of extensive audiovisual equipment of various kinds, from 55" NEC flatpanels (P551AV) 42" (V422-CN), inSynergie control systems (iSMasterXL, iSMovie and iSOperate), Samsung's 32" touch solutions (320TSn-3) hitachi CP-AW250N or Vivitek D5000 video projectors among other solutions.

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by • 4 Apr, 2012
• section: formation, Infrastructure, projection, simulation