Underneath your feet

What’s happening beneath your feet and what does it mean for your health? The soil is teeming with life: from microbes to animals and plants. Discover how healthy soil forms the foundation of a healthy planet, and how all life above ground is deeply connected to the world below.

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admission with a regular ticket for ARTIS-Park from 29 May to 1 June

Underneath your feet

What’s happening beneath your feet and what does it mean for your health? The soil is teeming with life: from microbes to animals and plants. Discover how healthy soil forms the foundation of a healthy planet, and how all life above ground is deeply connected to the world below.

Buy your ticket

admission with a regular ticket for ARTIS-Park from 29 May to 1 June

Dive into the world beneath your feet

Discover soil life in the ARTIS-Groote Museum, sculpt your favorite soil creatures in clay, and observe microbes in ARTIS-Micropia.

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The tiny ten

Shape soil creatures from clay and offer them back to the Earth.

Soil Scent Memory

Underground, it’s dark—so soil creatures rely on smell. Can you sniff out the right scents like they do?

Zoom in

Soil creatures are easy to miss—you often walk right past them. Here, you can zoom in on the ones you’ve found.

Visit ARTIS-Groote Museum

The exhibition Onderstebodem brings what’s beneath to the surface by taking a deep look at our relationship with the soil.

Visit ARTIS-Micropia

Countless types of fungi and bacteria hide beneath the soil. Learn more about them in the museum.