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The Strandbeesten come from twelve periods. Each period is characterized by its own developments and unfoldments. Read everything below per period. The periods are sorted from old to recent. Click …

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Now you can’t increase the size of a strandbeest of electrical tubing ad infinitum. Large strandbeests lose their rigidity. If I was to make large animals, I had to start thinking about other methods of …

Strandbeest in KM A fossil strandbeest is on permanent display in the so-called 'Tuinzaal' of Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

The beachsessions explain the latest developments of the strandbeest's and you can see the most recent Strandbeest walking at the beach of The Hague. There is also an opportunity to ask questions.

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Strandbeest, The Next Generation 2022 Impressive skeletal structures that move independently, powered by the wind: artist Theo Jansen’s (b. 1948) strandbeesten, or beach animals, can regularly …

The muscle of a strandbeest can best be likened to a bone that gets longer. And in here lies the advantage of the expanding muscle over the contracting. We and all other vertebrates need a bone …

In other words the process for developing a new strandbeest takes an average of one year. How did you come up with the idea? In the 80’s I was a columnist for De Volkskrant (a Dutch newspaper). The …