Here are some ideas for themes and exhibits in the museum.
Please send us your suggestions.
Exhibits
- Guppy Fish Aquarium (Similar to that in Museo de la Malaria, Pontinia)
- Mosquito Aquarium, showing mosquitos breeding and feeding on blood.
- Laser to shoot mosquitos à la Intellectual Ventures
- Chinoa tree
- Artemisenin Plants
- Stamps - There are a huge number of stamp collections out there.
A good starting point: Malaria Philatelists - A computer dedicated to number crunching for http://www.malariacontrol.net/ sitting on its own, working away, explaining the project.
- Alternative uses for the Mosquito Net
- The DDT debate
- Cities abondened due to Malaria such as the major city Paestum of Ancient Rome.
- ... your idea ?
Themes
- Complexity & Interconnectivity in Malaria
(Axes to include: Dateline, Geography, Theme ...) - War and Malaria (US Civil War, Cold War, Napoleon, WWII, Vietnam ...)
- Malaria's effect on history
Ancient Rome, Napoleon, Nairobi ... - History's effect on Malaria
Globalisation, Cold War, Colonialism ... - The Biology of Malaria
Lifecycle etc. - A difference in understanding. The western view of malaria v's the african view of malaria.
- Victims of Malaria
- Tutenkhamun
- Alexander The Great
- 5 Popes
- Alfred Dürer
- St. Augustine
- Genghis Khan
- Dante
- Oliver Cromwell
- Lord Byron
- Sheryl Crow & George Clooney
- And more here ... and here ...
- Heroes of Malaria (Ross, Gates, Wagner-Jauregg ...)
- The role of the modern pharmaceutical company?
- Medicines. Past & Present. Real, fake and controversial.
- Traditional beliefs and supersitions in relation to malaria
- Malaria and art
Posters, Photos, Paintings, Films, Music ... - Malaria Today
$$ Aid, Where it is, Who's winning, The cost of malaria, Resistance, Eradicate or control? - Technology of Malaria
- Fighting Malaria
Nets, Social causes, Vaccine ? - Malaria & Zionism in Palestine
- ... your idea ?

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