Superbugs 🦠🔬🏫🧒🏽

So many questions.

Some preliminary numbers.

📆 28 days
🧑🏼‍🔬 54 volunteers
🎓 3 universities
🛝 8 activities
💰 6 treasures
🧟 11 horror show booths
🖼️ 52 picture frames
🦟 100 live mosquitoes
👪 4,955 visitors
🏫 11 school visits
🎯 900 sticker challenges
🔍 753 treasure hunts
🧫 1,254 body swabs
📝 258 feedback forms
🤷🏼 0 regrets

So many questions.

And that's a wrap. We have closed now, after 4 weeks of Superbugs fun for schools, families and everyone interested in the microbial world in, on and around us.

Thank you to everyone visiting us and supporting us!

Our very special visitor no. 4,955 - the last person in our 2025 pop-up shop!

We would have not been able to deliver such an ambitious pop-up shop over the past 4 weeks without an army of 54 enthusiastic and tireless volunteers from across Cardiff Uni, Cardiff Met and Swansea Uni, and beyond!

THANK YOU !!

Kisses from South Wales!

💋🦠🧫

We would have not been able to deliver such an ambitious pop-up shop over the past 4 weeks without an army of 54 enthusiastic and tireless volunteers from across Cardiff Uni, Cardiff Met and Swansea Uni, and beyond!

THANK YOU !!

Kisses from South Wales!

💋🦠🧫

Our very special visitor no. 4,955 - the last person in our 2025 pop-up shop!

And that's a wrap. We have closed now, after 4 weeks of Superbugs fun for schools, families and everyone interested in the microbial world in, on and around us.

Thank you to everyone visiting us and supporting us!

Day 27: Our busiest day ever!

Day 27: Our busiest day ever!

Day 25: More than 600 treasure hunts and more than 700 sticker challenges completed so far, and already more than 1,000 body swabs cultured on agar plates.

Can we reach 5,000 visitors before we close on Sunday?

👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025

And this is what we have been growing from a baby's foot, an inhaler, jewellery and an armpit.

👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025/...

Pop-Up 2025 - Horror Show — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

Our live and interactive Horror Show - an overview of some of the most devastating infectious diseases in human history, from the black death, smallpox and cholera to malaria, leprosy and COVID-19.

Day 26: Still going strong. Our last Friday, and what a great days it's been!

Day 26: Still going strong. Our last Friday, and what a great days it's been!

Pop-Up 2025 - Horror Show — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

Our live and interactive Horror Show - an overview of some of the most devastating infectious diseases in human history, from the black death, smallpox and cholera to malaria, leprosy and COVID-19.

Give us two days. 💋

And this is what we have been growing from a baby's foot, an inhaler, jewellery and an armpit.

👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025/...

One can never have enough blood agar plates these days.

Pop-Up 2025 - Body Swabs — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us

If you ever need to take body swabs from hundreds of members of the public, then yes.
www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025/...

Day 25: More than 600 treasure hunts and more than 700 sticker challenges completed so far, and already more than 1,000 body swabs cultured on agar plates.

Can we reach 5,000 visitors before we close on Sunday?

👉🏼 www.superbugs.online/pop-up-2025

Come and find us in the St David's Centre in Cardiff!

Meanwhile.

Did you miss @eberlmat.bsky.social at the last #GDTCellclub seminar? He's been single handedly trying to teach Microbiology to the future generations.. one @superbugs.bsky.social at a time. Check this out👇👇

Meanwhile.

Come and find us in the St David's Centre in Cardiff!

Some stunning artwork produced in the arts & crafts corner of our pop-up shop!