What is ARTIS-Groote Museum?
Everything is connected
This interactive museum will reveal to you a host of surprising connections. For example, your intestines perform the same functions as the roots of a tree, and when you learnt to crawl as a baby, you moved in precisely the same way as a crocodile. Similarities such as these change your perspective on yourself and the world around you. As it turns out, you appear to be connected to every other living thing, right down to the tiniest fibres in your body. And you are much more dependent on other life than you realised.
Big questions
Would you like to experience what connects us as humans with all other life on earth? The interactive museum houses exhibits, installations, displays, artworks, films and stories that will hold up a mirror to you, confront you with questions and introduce you to new and different perspectives. You will discover answers and ask new questions that maintain and enhance your wonder at the beauty of the earth.
Tours
Audio tours
To help you absorb and appreciate the many topics and connections in the museum, actress Monic Hendrickx has developed three listening tours.
A national monument
The Groote Museum was built between 1850 and 1855 for the members of the Natura Artis Magistra Zoological Society. The museum, which closed in 1947, has since been completely renovated and restored. Now you can stroll across the same wooden floors as the Society members did so many years ago.
