Museum der Universität Tübingen MUT

With more than 530 years of research, teaching and exhibition collections, the University of Tübingen has an outstanding collection of scientific and cultural history objects. These extraordinary and technically highly differentiated collections are characterized by their age, their universal diversity and their preserved completeness. The MUT acts as an umbrella organization for the more than 60 collections of the University of Tübingen - the largest number at a German university.

It was already early on begun to make the teaching and research objects accessible to the public. For example, in 1897 the Prints and Drawings Department of the Institute of Art History was founded, in 1903 the exhibition of the Paleontological Collection - one of the largest and most important in Europe - and finally the Museum in Hohentübingen Castle in 1997, with its sometimes unique cultural and antiquarian treasures, such as the oldest preserved ones Artworks of humanity, the ivory figures of the bird stove. In addition to the university's numerous individual collections, there are a large number of objects that do not appear in the already inventoried collections but still play a major role as scientific artefacts, as the materialized cultural and research history of the university. Viewing, securing and collecting the entire collection in a common collection database is one of the museum's most pressing challenges.

The "Recommendations on Scientific Collections as Research Infrastructures" issued by the German Science Council in January 2011 (Drs. 10464-11) make the organizational construction of the MUT in particular a model for other university custodies.

Currently working under the direction of Prof. Dr. med. Ernst Seidl in addition to the respective technical staff and employees in individual collections - such as in the castle Hohentübingen - three academic staff, a scientific volunteer, two administrative staff and three student assistants at the MUT.