Feet Taking steps
The Groote Museum is divided into zones. Discover here what there is to see and experience in the zone about feet.
When we started walking upright, we were still part of the natural equilibrium. The world was at our feet, we went out and made ever deeper tracks with our presence. By now, the earth is threatening to succumb to them. The good news is that you can also take new paths.
Habits can change. Difficult? Not so long ago, Dutch women wore fur coats and airplanes were blue with cigarette smoke. How do we build a new community with the other life on earth?
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Footsteps from our past
Human feet have changed considerably over the centuries. Compare your feet to those of our ancestors.
The blueprint
All feet have more or less the same blueprint, but are still slightly different. Do you see the similarities?
Leg on a wedge heel
In biology, there are many ways to indicate distinction between species. However, there are more similarities that you cannot see with the naked eye, such as similar toes and joints. This is also the case with this elephant leg. Where an elephant leg may seem clumsy at first glance, on the inside you can see that the foot rests on a cushion. One could say that an elephant constantly walks on its toes, just like people can walk on wedge heels.
Much deeper than you think
Your feet establish your contact with the earth. The same goes for the roots of plants, only they dig in, looking for stability, food and water. We know a lot about the roots of cultivated crops, because we grow them ourselves. The root system of an onion, for example, can be twenty times the size of the union itself. This also becomes evident when studying the roots of white cabbages in the giant tubes in the museum.
