Get to know your microbes at ‘The Secret World Inside You’

Museum exhibit introduces visitors to the microbiome

Bacteroidetes

MICROBE MEETING  In a new museum exhibit, larger-than-life models of bacteria, like these cellulose-eating Bacteroidetes, show the diversity of microbes that live in and on people.

© R. Mickens/AMNH

The Secret World Inside You
Through August 14, 2016
American Museum of Natural History
New York City

Bacteria are not necessarily bad.