Your route through the museum
Following the first spiders
Eight stops connecting early traces, relationships and living spiders.
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Evolution & Earth history
There was no orb web at the beginning.
How fossils change our picture of the early relatives of spiders.
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Evolution & Earth history
Life on land changes the rules.
Body covering, breathing and movement connect spiders to their environment.
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Evolution & Earth history
What remains of a life.
Fossils provide clues while preserving only fragments of the past.
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Evolution & Earth history
A family tree, not a ladder.
Relationships explain shared traits and the diversity of their changes.
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Evolution & Earth history
Many ways to keep living.
Why sharp vision, webs and retreats can be different solutions.
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Silk & webs
Not every web is an orb.
Sheets, spaces, funnels and remarkable modifications.
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Diversity & species portraits
Related, but not identical.
From tarantulas to jumping spiders: a first guide to diversity.
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Diversity & species portraits
The diving-bell spider
Argyroneta aquatica · A space of air underwater.
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