Apiculture Museum - What's all the buzz about? (2)

The four-room museum itself is a reasonably low-key affair. Those who require interactive exhibits to keep them alert may end up catching some Zs instead of learning more about bees. Most information is conveyed through bright poster displays: informative for readers of Chinese script, but less so for others. You can figure out from pictures that honey, bee pollen, and even bee stings can have health benefits, but without a translator the details will be a mystery.

In the first room, a number of bee species are on display, carefully pinned to sheets of graph paper for your perusal. The hex-themed architectural wonders of different beehives lay vacant behind sheets of glass.

In another room, a red milk crate, a silver canister and a blue dog house turn out to be beekeepers' tools of the trade. Photos on the wall are more likely to send the pulse abuzz. Images of half formed bee pupas wriggling in their honey filled capsules make you wonder how we can be sure our honey doesn't have invisible pupas swimming in it. A picture of fried pupas on a plate with decorative garnishes proclaims the gourmet possibilities of honey bees. Photos of people showcasing grotesquely purple lesions on their lips or tongue would turn the stomach if not accompanied by miraculous recovery photos after patients applied (you guessed it) …honey!

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