The two-story exhibition space provides an educational overview of the diversity of parasites in the natural world and their life cycles. The second floor exhibition space has an emphasis on parasites in humans and their effects (including the
nematode, the
trematode, and the
tapeworm). On display are 300 preserved specimens, including an -long
Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense tapeworm. The research library contains 60,000 parasite specimens, as well as 50,000 papers and 5,000 books on parasitology. The museum has a gift counter on the second floor, where visitors can purchase a museum guidebook, postcards, T-shirts, or mobile-phone straps with actual parasites embedded in acrylic (either
Nybelinia surmenicola or
Oncomelania nosophora). The museum is free to visitors and relies on donations because it is private and does not receive government funds. ==References==