ARTIS-Micropia

Micropia is a small museum on the Artisplein devoted entirely to microbes — live cultures under working microscopes, a wall of glowing petri dishes, a body scanner that tells you which organisms live on you, and displays about the gut microbiome that are far more detailed than the building’s size suggests. It takes about an hour, two if you stop at everything.

It suits people who like looking closely at things and don’t want a long walk. The rooms are dim, the exhibits are hands-on, and almost everything moves or reacts. It’s a museum about biology, not cannabis, and it shares ARTIS’s smoke-free rules — worth doing after a session, not during one.