Online Exhibitions
360°-Exhibitions
Online Exhibition
In a new category, the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT offers a look into current and past exhibitions. These tours can be viewed virtually in a 360° degree view of the exhibition. The experience is completed by further information and an audio guide available in several languages.
3D Museum
Online Exhibition
Experience objects from Tübingen's unique university collections in a completely new light thanks to impressive 3D modelling. The objects can be displayed even more realistically with VR glasses. All models can be downloaded free of charge and created using a 3D printer.
eMuseum
Online Exhibition
Based on the recommendations of the Science Council on "Scientific Collections as Research Infrastructures", the eMuseum ist a publicly accessible part of the MUT object database. It presents selected objects in the form of image and text content in a clear and easy to search format.
Colonial Shadows
Online Exhibition
Elisabeth Krämer-Bannow, who was part of the expedition as self-taught illustrator, photographer and ethnologist, used her access to the women of Palau to document their daily lives and culture from a rare perspective. While male explorers often lacked access to this world, she was able to provide intimate insights that often went unobserved in ethnological research at the time. Her watercolours and photographs, on display in the exhibition, offer a vivid picture of Palauan life and a critical reflection on the colonial view of the period.
Dental | Things – A dentological collection
Online Exhibition
The digital exhibition reflects the complete recording and revision of a dental teaching collection. Find out more about the collection, the associated MUT project and the practical seminar of the same name. Discover the collection with 360° views, 3D models and many other possibilities.
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The 1000 names of Vishnu – A donation and its consequences
Online Exhibition
Heide and Wolfgang Voelter donated two Sanskrit manuscripts from the 19th century to the University of Tübingen. Parallel to the analogue exhibition at Hohentübingen Castle, the exhibition team of the University Library developed an accompanying digital exhibition.
In the Eye of the Beholder. The aesthetic of Roman coins
Online Exhibition – external
The Collaborative Research Centre 1391 „Andere Ästhetik“ (Different aesthetic) of the University of Tübingen developed this digital exhibition together with students. It covers coins as means of payment as well as ancient form of mass media.
Temple Tax and Dove Dealers
Money in the Temple of Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus in Virtual Reality
Online Exhibition – external
Thanks to the latest virtual reality technology, visitors can walk through the Herodian Temple, one of the most impressive buildings in the ancient Mediterranean world. Through playful interaction with avatars and 3D models of authentic coins, they can actively experience how money was handled in the Jerusalem Temple at the time of Christ: from exchanging foreign currency at the money changers' tables to pay the temple tax, to buying doves as sacrificial animals, as documented in biblical texts. Immerse yourself in the virtual reality of Jesus' time to visit the central sanctuary of ancient Judaism and solve exciting puzzles about the use of coins in the Temple!
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Morgan O'Hara – „Life and Meaning... it's personal“
Online Exhibition
In autumn 2019, the MUT and the University of Tübingen's invited artist Morgan O'Hara hosted the workshop „Life and Meaning… it’s personal“ for students of all faculties. In direct dialogue with the artist, numerous exciting artistic testimonies of this encounter were created, which are now being presented in an online exhibition.
EX MACHINA
The machines of Leonardo da Vinci between science and art
Online Exhibition
To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death on May 2nd, 1519, the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT is presenting an online exhibition with numerous replicas of the universal genius' machine designs. Leonardo combined the knowledge of art, science and technology of the time like no other – as reflected in the large, universal collections of the University of Tübingen.
Moulage Collection
Online Exhibition
Today’s Moulage Collection consists of two subcollections: a dermatological one of the University Skin Clinic and a tropical medical one of the German Institute for Medical Mission (Difäm). Outstanding objects are the replicas of, today rare, diseases in their final stages, such as lupus and syphilis, the pest and pox.
Mind and Shape
Online Exhibition
The permanent exhibition offers insights into the world of mathematics. It is aimed at specialist scientists, as well as people without math expertise. Mind: Mind, spirit and shape: Shape, form outline the topic of this exhibition. It would like to give an insight into the world of thoughts of mathematics. For, what takes place unseen in the heads, can take on a spatial shape in mathematic models.
Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) on medals and plaques
Online Exhibition
30 November 2017 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Theodor Mommsen, Nobel Laureate in Literature and Germany's most famous scholar of antiquity in the 19th century. On this occasion, the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT is showing a special online exhibition.
Mind|Things
Online Exhibition
The human sensory impression show themselves especially deceptive, over and over again. It is therefore obvious that the perception of things is moving into the focus of experimental psychology. For with seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching a person experiences information which is cognitively processed and let MindThings be created. In the permanent exhibition “Kopf|Sachen – Mind|Things” historic instruments and tests from the psychological collection are presented. Intelligence and competence tests, optical illusions, haptic phenomenon, the fine mechanical work and the history of the department are explained vividly.
Threatened Orders
Online Exhibition – external
Nominated for the Grimme award, this online exhibition by the Collaborative Research Centre 923 »Threatened Orders« at the University of Tübingen illustrates situations in which people loose confidence in accustomed processes, the actions of their contemporaries and their belief in a secure future.
Scholars' images
Online Exhibition – external
For the first time, this exhibition presents a comprehensive show of 19th century medals with images of famous scholars of antiquity. Not only does this shed light on the development of classical studies in the 19th century, but also introduces the viewer to intensively collected objects from an academic and educated middle class from the heyday of medallic art.