Draft:Museum of the University of Tübingen

• Comment: You seem to have ignored DoubleGrazing's second obligation/request (the one about "Publications").
  Virtually the only reference you have for the lists of collections is a PDF from the museum. The PDF is an excellent production of its kind, but I see no point in additionally listing all these collections here. Instead I suggest that you describe their variety and range in a single, short, list-less paragraph, with the museum's PDF as its main reference. Of course, if you have other sources that are independent of the museum or its curators, you could augment the paragraph with material citing those independent sources. Hoary (talk) 22:56, 6 November 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: It's not clear what the list of works in the 'Publications' section is there for, but if any of them can be used as sources, then please cite them in the usual manner; simply listing them there serves no real purpose. DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:48, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Primary sources (esp. ones close to the subject) do not establish notability per WP:ORG. DoubleGrazing (talk) 14:47, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

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Logo of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT

The Museum of the University of Tübingen (German: Museum der Universität Tübingen; MUT) is a central institution of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. Since October 2006, it has been responsible for researching the university’s collections, connecting them administratively, professionalising them, providing the university with an exhibition laboratory in the form of changing exhibitions, and making the collections available for research, teaching and education as well as to the general public.

History

Founded in 1477, the University of Tübingen has around 80 diverse research, teaching and exhibition collections. Efforts were made early on to make artefacts used for teaching and research accessible to the public. For example, the Prints and Drawings Collection was founded at the Institute of Art History in 1897, the Palaeontological Collection in 1902, and the Museum Ancient Cultures in Hohentübingen castle was opened in 1997. Finally, the Museum of the University of Tübingen was established in 2006 to act as an umbrella organisation for the university’s collections. In January 2011 the German Science and Humanities Council published „Recommendations on Scientific Collections as Research Infrastructures“ (Drs. 10464-11). which positively emphasise the management of university collections by central institutions such as the MUT.

Since 2010, student projects at the MUT have contributed to the inventory and presentation of collections. The third-party funded 'MAM|MUT' project (2013-2016) pursued the objectives of digitising the university's collections and establishing their use as teaching and research resources. Students learned how to record, organise and inventory collections, using examples which were on the verge of being forgotten and in a fragile state of conservation. Beginning in the winter semester 2016/2017 these student projects were integrated into the interdisciplinary master's profile “Museum & Collections“, for which the MUT is also responsible.

Collections

The collections are sorted alphabetically within the subgroups.

Ancient Egyptian offering chamber (mastaba) in the Museum Ancient Cultures

A bear or lion figure made of mammoth ivory found at the UNESCO World Heritage site Vogelherd cave.

Hohentübingen Castle

Hohentübingen Castle holds 17 collections, most of them part of the Museum Ancient Cultures. Among them are objects from two UNESCO world heritage sites: ice age figurines and musical instruments from the Vogelherd cave on the Swabian alp and artefacts from Late Bronze Age wetland settlements (pile dwellings) excavated at Federsee. Further highlights are the world’s oldest giant wine barrel as well as over 370 plaster casts of famous antique statues, including the colossal casts of the Herakles Farnese and Kouros of Samos. Related exhibitions at the castle are the collection of the Protestant Preachers Institute which serves as the liturgical furnishings of the castle church as well as the old biochemical laboratory. The former castle kitchen, now an exhibition space, is where Felix Hoppe-Seyler researched and named haemoglobin and Friedrich Miescher discovered nucleic acid in 1869.

Hohentübingen castle laboratory

A Māori poupou (dating to the early 18th century), gifted to Joseph Banks on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Ethnological Collection of the University of Tübingen.

Other collections

Outside Hohentübingen Castle, there are currently 15 publicly accessible collections spread across Tübingen. They are closely linked to their respective institutes and thus extend from the historic city center to the university buildings around Wilhelmsstraße and the natural science campus on Morgenstelle, northwest of Tübingen. They cover a wide range of subjects such as anatomy, palaeontology, and psychology. Currently, there are 28 decentralized collections that can only be visited partly or on request, including the Old Observatory, the Herbarium Tubingense and the Professors’ gallery. The remaining 22 collections are not (yet) available to the public. These include the Drill Core Collection at the Geo and Environmental Center (GUZ), the university’s Historical Furniture Collection, and the Moulage Collection of the University Dermatological Clinic.

Coins from the Islamic world (dating approximately to the 2nd half of the 15th Century), Coin Collection of Islamic Numismatic of the University of Tübingen

Skeleton of Liopleurodon ferox, Paleontological Collection of the University of Tübingen

Posthumous portrait of Johannes Nauclerus (1425-1510), first director of the University of Tübingen, Professors' Gallery

Exhibitions

Permanent Exhibitions

• "Ancient Cultures" at Hohentübingen Castle
• "Castle Laboratory Tübingen" at Hohentübingen Castle
• "WorldCultures" at the Pentagonal Tower of Hohentübingen Castle
• the Bohnenberger Observatory at Hohentübingen Castle
• "Evolution" at the Department of Geoscience
• "Plant Diversity" at the Botanical Gardens of the University of Tübingen
• "MindThings" at the Department of Psychology
• "Mind and Shape" at the Department of Mathematics
• "Crystals" in the Lothar-Meyer building
• "AnimalPreparations" at the Chair of Comparative Zoology
• the Graphic Collection in the Bonatz building
• "Dental|Things" at the Center for Dental, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine

Special Exhibitions

• "Ex Machina. Leonardo da Vinci's Machines in Science and Art" (May 3 - Dezember 1, 2019)
• "Plant Diversity 1969-2019", for the 50th anniversary of the Botanical Gardens of the University of Tübingen (March 10 - February 9, 2020)
• "Life and Meaning... it's personal", cooperation with Morgan O'Hara (March 20 - September 6, 2020)
• "UDO - the first biped" (January 31 - November 1, 2020)
• "The invisible exhibition", cooperation with Stefan Göler (February 21, 2020 - September 12, 2021)
• "The 1000 Names of Vishnu - Illustrated Sanskrit manuscripts" (March 25 - June 13, 2021)
• "Unser Ding – Objekte als Spiegel der Institutsgeschichte" (Our thing - objects as a mirror for the Institutes' history) (October 16 - November 7, 2021)
• "19. Mai 1971. - 'Die Umbenennungsfrage ist damit entschieden.'" (May 19th 1971. - 'Thus the question of renaming is settled.') (July 2 - November 7, 2021)
• "MuseumVirtuell – A VR exhibition made by students" (October 16 - November 28, 2021)
• "Feel the Touch“, cooperation with Zurab Bero (February 18 - April 18, 2022)
• "Looking Glass" (May 6 - June 12, 2022)
• "Maarten van Heemskerck & Co." (May 20 - July 29, 2022)
• "Schöningen - Hunting, gathering and life 300,000 years ago" (July 29 - October 3, 2022)
• "Drawing in Motion", cooperation with Takehito Koganezawa (August 20 - October 3, 2022)
• "Troia for Kids" (October 28, 2022 - April 16, 2023)
• "Troia, Schliemann and Tübingen" (October 28, 2022 - April 16, 2023)
• "The ‚Dörfle‘ in der western part of the town" (June 19 - July 14, 2023)
• "MicroPop. Design, Science and the World of Microbes" (June 29 - August 27, 2023)

• "Pioneers of Knowledge. The Nobel Laureates of the Max Planck Society" (October 6 - November 19, 2023)
• "The Ammer Valleys gold. The end of the Stone Age in the Tübingen area" (September 22, 2023 - January 14, 2024)
• "Whispering Bodies", cooperation with Adrian Turner (February 2 - May 20, 2024)
• "Anatomy unbound" (April 17, 2023 - September 30, 2024)

Digital Formats

The virtual museum 'eMuseum' makes past and current exhibitions digitally accessible and already displays around 6000 objects from 44 collections. Also, some exhibitions are available in panoramic format as '360°-Exhibitions' for PCs and smartphones.

Since 2018, the MUT has been cooperating with the eScience Centre Tübingen to create and publish 3D models of objects from various collections. These model can be experienced in a browser or via VR glasses, as well as downloaded and printed using a 3D printer

Publications

The MUT issues several series, including the Publications of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT (German: Schriften des Museums der Universität Tübingen MUT), the Brief Monographs by MUT (German: Kleine Monographien des MUT) and the Invited Artist of the University of Tübingen.

• Ernst Seidl (Ed.), Treasures of Hohentübingen Castle, Tübingen: MUT 2014, ISBN 978-3-9816616-3-7.
• Frank Duerr, Ernst Seidl (Ed.), Origins. Steps of Humankind (=Schriften des Museums der Universität Tübingen MUT 15), Tübingen: MUT 2014, ISBN 978-3-9817947-9-3.
• Thomas Beck, The Tübingen Castle Laboratory. The Cradle of Biochemistry (=Brief Monographs by MUT 3), Tübingen: MUT 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817947-2-4.
• Nicholas J. Conard, The Vogelherd Horse and the Origins of Art (=Brief Monographs by MUT 6), Tübingen: MUT 2016 (ISBN 978-3-9817947-8-6)
• Volker Harms, The Tübingen Poupou. A Maori Carving from James Cook's First Voyage of Discovery (=Brief Monographs by MUT 7), Tübingen: MUT 2017(ISBN 978-3-9817947-6-2)
• Ernst Seidl (Ed.), Mohammad Ghazali. Ich kann nicht nichtschön sein (=Invited Artist of the University of Tübingen 1), Tübingen: MUT 2018 (ISBN 978-3-9819182-3-6)
• Ingrid Gamer-Wallert, The Mastaba of Tübingen. An Ancient Egyptian Offering Chamber from Giza (=Brief Monographs by MUT 11), Tübingen: MUT 2019 (ISBN 978-3-9819182-9-8)
• Jürgen Kost, The Castle Observatory in Tübingen. A unique Ensemble (=Brief Monographs by MUT 10), Tübingen: MUT 2020 (ISBN 978-3-9819182-6-7)
• Kathrin B. Zimmer, The Tübingen Hoplite. A Greek Masterpice from the Time of the Persian Wars (=Brief Monographs by MUT 12), Tübingen: MUT 2020 (ISBN 978-3-9819182-8-1)
• Ernst Seidl (Ed.), Life and Meaning... it's personal. Invited Artist II Morgan O'Hara (=Invited Artist of the University of Tübingen 2), Tübingen: MUT 2020 (ISBN 978-3-9821339-2-8)
• Edgar Bierende, The Oldest Giant Wine Barrel. A Superlative at Hohentübingen Castle (=Brief Monographs by MUT 14), Tübingen: MUT 2020 (ISBN 978-3-9821339-5-9)
• Carolina Teotino, The Sarcophagus Ensemble of Taditjaina. Searching for Immortality in Ancient Egypt (=Brief Monographs by MUT 16), Tübingen: MUT 2021 (ISBN 978-3-9819182-5-0)
• Ernst Seidl (Ed.), Feel the touch. Invited Artist III Zurab Bero (=Invited Artist of the University of Tübingen 3), Tübingen: MUT 2022 (ISBN 978-3-949680-01-4)
• Ernst Seidl (Ed.), Drawing in Motion. Invited Artist IV Takehito Koganezawa (=Invited Artist of the University of Tübingen 4), Tübingen: MUT 2022 (ISBN 978-3-949680-03-8)
• Ernst Seidl (Ed.), Whispering Bodies. Invited Artist V Adrian Turner (=Invited Artist of the University of Tübingen 5), Tübingen: MUT 2024 (ISBN 978-3-949680-10-6)

External Links

• Official website
• Online exhibitions at the Museum of the University of Tübingen