On September 6, 2019 Dr Harsh Vardhan, Minister of Health and Prahlad Singh Patel, Minister of State (I/C), Ministry of Culture jointly inaugurated the exhibition Superbugs: The End of Antibiotics? at National Science Centre, Delhi. The exhibition has been organised by National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) in collaboration with Science Museum, Group, London, Wellcome(UK) and supported by ICMR.
The exhibition explores how society is responding to the enormous challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antibacterial resistance (ABR) in particular featuring scientific research from across the globe and personal stories of those waging war on Superbugs.
Bacteria, tiny organisms capable of causing disease are becoming resistant to our most powerful weapon against them, antibiotics and turning into superbugs. Today antibiotic-resistant superbugs kill up to 7,00,000 people a year. By 2050 that could rise to 10 million.
The exhibition has three major sections: Microscopic, Human and Global. Microscopic Section explores the hidden world of bacteria. Be it their size or characteristics, evolution of superbugs or history of antibiotics; the exhibits of this section will take you on a journey in which you can zoom into the world of microbes, explore the touchscreen multimedia to understand how bacteria evolve into superbugs or flip a digital e-book to know the history of antibiotics.