Living in the city, you know space is precious when it comes to restaurants, apartments and now museums. NY1's Roger Clark explains.

If you are going to have a museum the size of a vending machine, you need to make some adjustments. Like an aquarium filled with holograms to display creatures known as mollusks. 

"They are snails and octopuses and the giant squid," said MICRO Co-Founder Amanda Schochet. "And they are these things that maybe we don't think about them much in our daily lives, but they are really a great window to explore the whole world."

And you can learn about them through a six-foot-tall display in the lobby of the the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library for the next three months. 

A nonprofit called MICRO came up with this MICROVERSE, squeezing tons of visuals and information into a very small space. 

"This museum here was created by more than 50 people," said MICRO Co-Founder Charles Philipp. "It's a lot of scientists, designers, engineers, storytellers."

The compact museum features the first-ever 3D print of an octopus heart, bigger than the real life version which is the size of a pea. Not to mention a bucket of slime, the amount it would take a snail to make its way across the Brooklyn Bridge.

The microverse complements the Library's existing education programs in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. 

"We really strive to do innovative programming here," said Christine Shonhart, Assistant Director of the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library. "And this is a great example of that."

The first four of these tiny museums are all about the mollusks, but future versions will cover other sciences and after that a variety of subjects including math, history and art.

And MICRO co-founders Amanda Schochet and Charles Philipp hope to place these tiny museums everywhere, in places you wouldn't expect, from malls, to airports, community centers and even DMV offices. 

"I think there is no reason to be bored nowadays," said Philipp. "You've got all of this information at your fingertips, so if we can really get people excited by this during their downtime, I think that we've done a really good service."

So one day a delayed flight, or a wait for a drivers license, could mean an educational experience. As the folks at MIRCO say, learning how small things can make a big difference.

In Brooklyn, Roger Clark, NY1.