Spine Go or stay?
The Groote Museum is divided into zones. Discover here what there is to see and experience in the zone about the spine.
Every living thing must feed,provide for its offspring, and protect itself from danger. Plants do this while staying in place, animals must move. Mammals, fish, birds, reptiles and
amphibians have a spinal column for this purpose.
And though they all use it differently – bats don’t swim and crocodiles don’t swing on trees – there are also many similarities. For example, a crocodile moves its spine the way you did as a crawling baby.
Discover this zone
Plant time
Slowly, very slowly, too slowly for the human eye, there is burrowing, climbing and swinging inside.
Are we still changing?
Will our cervical spine evolve because we are hunched over so much, staring at our screen?
Same S
As you get dressed, fry an egg or walk up the stairs, you don’t realise that your movements mirror those of other animals, from lizards to fleas. In fact, all animals move according to a limited number of principles. You too have similarities with this skeleton of a female Bennet Wallaby that lived in ARTIS. Study the similar spinal columns in the display case in the museum. Doesn’t that sound familiar?
Move it
A tree, camel, lizard or perhaps a jaguar? What do these four have in common with you? They all have their own movement patterns, just like humans. Step onto the platform in front of the interactive installation, move and unlock your inner animal, or aim for complete motionless so you can morph into a tree.
