“Infected!” – the exhibition of the Netherlands in Leiden opened on the eve in the evening king Willem-Alexander, reports German news Agency dpa.
Located in the walls of the science Museum exhibition tells the story of experienced human pandemics – the plague from the medieval to the present coronavirus. As noted by the Director of the Museum Amico Haarhuis, the aim of the exhibition is to demonstrate the destructiveness of the epidemic.
For example, victims of plague were 200 million people in Europe die every third inhabitant. Unlike the plague, which raged in the seventeenth century, a pandemic struck the world recently. Here and the Spanish flu that struck the planet at the beginning of the twentieth century, and what happened a little later, the AIDS. One of the most deadly diseases, smallpox for several centuries claimed the lives of millions. And only in 80-ies of the last century it managed to win. Here you can add and malaria, which one hundred years ago have not bypassed Europe.
the exhibition presents samples of protective clothing, which is used by people to avoid infection in the world today. Ranging from gas masks that saved people from the plague, ending with the present face masks and gloves. By the way, then and now widely used so-called social distance between people.
it is Noteworthy that the exhibition is “Infected!” was supposed to open much earlier, but came coronavirus, the Museum was closed, and only now visitors have access to exhibits, among which, said dpa, there is a wax mask, taken from the real dying patients in a time of rampant plague.
and, of course, the exposition was supplemented with artifacts from the ongoing pandemic coronavirus. According to Haarhuis, this exhibition should become a warning to mankind from a new as-yet-unidentified “disease X”, which can strike us at any time.
