Special exhibition Spiders - until January 8, 2017 at the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt!
In three different ways, it is shown here that the hairy animals with their eight legs are aesthetic and interesting animals.
Photographer Nicky Bay's macro shots show impressive details such as eyes and jaw claws that are barely visible to the naked eye. Featured in his photographs are largely spiders of Southeast Asia.
Besides, some 40 different species of spiders (such as the world's largest spider or the poisonous black widow) are waiting in glass terrariums for curious visitors brave enough to marvel at them up close.
Internationally renowned artist and architect Tomás Saraceno transforms spider webs into art installations, in the dark he makes the structures glow and even make sound.
