Exhibits

Bloodsuckers

December 3, 2011 – January, 13th 2013
An interactive exhibition for families and kids (6 years and older)

In cooperation with the Museum Baselland , Liestal

The new Children’s Museum exhibition ‘Bloodsuckers’ stars the ingeniously devised mouthparts of seven tiny creatures that feed on human blood. The queasy feeling in your stomach at first sight, and the funny, tingling sensation under your skin quickly turn into fascination after a closer look at mosquitoes, lice and other ‘bloodsuckers’ with their highly refined, tiny devices for piercing skin.

Explore how fleas and ticks bite, how leeches suck to get their meals - or turn the handles of our blood-sucking ‘machines’, built to imitate the movements of the tiny bloodsuckers.

Each of the seven areas of the exhibition feature a different type of bloodsucker, and you can literally keep a close eye on all of them with the help of magnifying glasses. The flea lets you examine its gripping device, the lice will surprise you with their masterful clinging techniques. Find out just how much blood a mosquito or bedbug consumes at each meal. Click on the audio and video documents in each area for  additional information about all the creatures.

Visit our workshop areas, where everything also revolves around ‘pricking’ and ‘blood’: learn needlepoint and stitching techniques; paint pictures using sucking devices and dripping techniques; create blood-sucking critters out of recycling materials. And finally: don’t miss a special encounter with the most popular bloodsuckers of all, which, of course, only exist in our fantasies – vampires!

An english guide is available at the front desk.

children's museum frankfurt
An der Hauptwache 15 - Mezzanine
60313 Frankfurt

Admission: Children 2 €/Adults 4 €
Familycard 9 €

Opening hours:
Mon: 10 am- 6 pm - only during school holidays!
Tue-Sun: 10 am- 6 pm

Information and booking:
069-212-35154 (Mon-Thu 10 a.m.-3.30 p.m.)