Special Exhibitions

The special exhibitions of the Museum of the University of Tübingen deal with changing topics and offer comprehensive information and background. Depending on what is on offer, they can also be visited in addition to the permanent exhibitions.

Current

Pioneers of Knowledge. The Nobel Laureates of the Max Planck Society

October 6th to November 19th 2023

The Nobel Prize is regarded as the Academy Award of science. Up until now 31 researchers of the Max Planck Society received this award. For its anniversary, the MPG presents a Digital Story and an exhibition about these scientific highlights from the present and the past. How has this research changed everyday life, industry and medicine since 1915 and shaped the modern world?

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The Ammer Valleys gold. The end of the Stone Age in the Tübingen area

September 22nd 2023 to January 14th 2024

In the fall of 2020, archaeological research excavations unexpectedly uncovered the oldest gold artifact in southwestern Germany: the gold ring from Ammerbuch-Reusten. This exhibition outlines the path from the first sedentary farming communities in southwestern Germany to the appearance of the oldest gold in an Early Bronze Age woman's grave near Ammerbuch-Reusten.

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Anatomy unbound

April 17th 2023 to September 30th 2024 (extended)

This exhibition was developed in three research projects by students of history and medicine under the direction of PD Dr. Henning Tümmers and Leonie Braam, M.A. (Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine) and Prof. Dr. Benigna Schönhagen and Stefan Wannenwetsch, M.A. (Grave Field X Project at the Institute for Historical Geography and Ancillary Historical Sciences). The interdisciplinary project is being developed in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hirt (Institute for Clinical Anatomy and Cell Analysis) and Prof. Dr. Ernst Seidl (Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT).

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