SlideReactor starlet at exhibition
03 October 2010 - 19:11
A multicompartment SlideReactor is shown at the exhibition “WeltWissen – World Knowledge”.
This year, Berlin celebrates 200 years of the Humboldt University, 300 years of the Charité, 300 years since the first statute and first publication by the Academy of the Sciences and, one year later, 100 years of the Max Planck and Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the 350th birthday of the Berlin State Library. The exhibition “WeltWissen – World Knowledge” is the high point of the Berlin Year of Science. The Humboldt University, the Charité, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities and the Max Planck Society have organised the exhibition as a unique joint project. The Technical University, the Berlin State Museums and the Deutsches Museum, Munich are involved as partners. From 24 September 2010 to 9 January 2011, Martin-Gropius-Bau will be host ing its “WeltWissen“ (World Knowledge) exhibition which takes a look at 300 years of the science in Berlin from an all-embracing perspective that crosses institutions, disciplines and epochs. The exhibition is the high point of the Berlin Year of Science. On an exhibition space of more than 3,200 square metres, visitors are presented with over 1,500 original exhibits, installations and media stations. The Humboldt University, the Charité, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities and the Max Planck Society have organised the exhibition as a unique joint project.
The exhibition correlates sciences in Berlin to the world: only the dynamic interplay of local imprinting and worldwide networking has allowed Berlin since 300 years to generate knowledge and share it with the world. Concrete and highly vivid stories and biographies of objects, researchers and institutions offer exciting insights into the scientific environment. “WeltWissen – World Knowledge” shows how scientists in Berlin work, how they network internationally, how they break down the boundaries of their departments and how they transformed Berlin into a scientific metropolis.
WeltWissen. 300 Years of Science in Berlin 24 September 2010 – 9 January 2011 Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstrasse 7, 10963 Berlin
Opening times: Wed - Mo: 10.00 am – 8.00 pm, closed on Tuesdays
Admission: 6 €, reduced 4€ . Free admission for children and adolescents up to an including 16 years of age, two escorts each per kindergarten group or school class as well as recipients of unemployment benefit level II
Public transport: Underground line 2 (Potsdamer Platz), city train lines 1, 2, 25 (Potsdamer Platz or Anhalter Bahnhof), Buses: M29 (Anhalter Bahnhof) / M41 (Abgeordnetenhaus) Please find more information at: www.weltwissen-berlin.de, www.gropiusbau.de
Copyright of upper, large picture: Roman März
This year, Berlin celebrates 200 years of the Humboldt University, 300 years of the Charité, 300 years since the first statute and first publication by the Academy of the Sciences and, one year later, 100 years of the Max Planck and Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the 350th birthday of the Berlin State Library. The exhibition “WeltWissen – World Knowledge” is the high point of the Berlin Year of Science. The Humboldt University, the Charité, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities and the Max Planck Society have organised the exhibition as a unique joint project. The Technical University, the Berlin State Museums and the Deutsches Museum, Munich are involved as partners. From 24 September 2010 to 9 January 2011, Martin-Gropius-Bau will be host ing its “WeltWissen“ (World Knowledge) exhibition which takes a look at 300 years of the science in Berlin from an all-embracing perspective that crosses institutions, disciplines and epochs. The exhibition is the high point of the Berlin Year of Science. On an exhibition space of more than 3,200 square metres, visitors are presented with over 1,500 original exhibits, installations and media stations. The Humboldt University, the Charité, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences and Humanities and the Max Planck Society have organised the exhibition as a unique joint project.
The exhibition correlates sciences in Berlin to the world: only the dynamic interplay of local imprinting and worldwide networking has allowed Berlin since 300 years to generate knowledge and share it with the world. Concrete and highly vivid stories and biographies of objects, researchers and institutions offer exciting insights into the scientific environment. “WeltWissen – World Knowledge” shows how scientists in Berlin work, how they network internationally, how they break down the boundaries of their departments and how they transformed Berlin into a scientific metropolis.
WeltWissen. 300 Years of Science in Berlin 24 September 2010 – 9 January 2011 Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstrasse 7, 10963 Berlin
Opening times: Wed - Mo: 10.00 am – 8.00 pm, closed on Tuesdays
Admission: 6 €, reduced 4€ . Free admission for children and adolescents up to an including 16 years of age, two escorts each per kindergarten group or school class as well as recipients of unemployment benefit level II
Public transport: Underground line 2 (Potsdamer Platz), city train lines 1, 2, 25 (Potsdamer Platz or Anhalter Bahnhof), Buses: M29 (Anhalter Bahnhof) / M41 (Abgeordnetenhaus) Please find more information at: www.weltwissen-berlin.de, www.gropiusbau.de
Copyright of upper, large picture: Roman März
Berlin Science Year
24 July 2010 - 22:43
Five major scientific institutions in Berlin are celebrating their jubilee in 2010. It is 350 years since the Berlin State Library (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin) was founded. Three hundred years ago, in 1710, the Charité hospital was erected on the orders of Frederick I, and in the same year the Kurfürstlich Brandenburgische Sozietät der Wissenschaften (Princely Brandenburg Society of the Sciences), which later became the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin Brandenburg Academy of the Sciences), received its first statute. 1810 saw the birth of the Humboldt University, and a century after that it was the turn of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the forerunner of the Max Planck Society.
The central exhibition ‘Weltwissen’ (‘Universal Knowledge’), in which all five institutions are taking part, will open at the Martin-Gropius-Bau on 24 September. This gives a panoramic retrospect of 300 years of science in Berlin, from Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz to the Brothers Humboldt and the Brothers Grimm and continuing on to Albert Einstein and Konrad Zuse. The exhibition “World Knowledge” forms the highlight of the Year of Science. Via illustrative stories of objects, researchers and institutions, the exhibition offers insight into the sciences. It illustrates how scientists have developed Berlin into a metropolis of science with a multitude of institutions and museums. The exhibition is a joint production of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Charité Berlin, the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Max-Planck- Society. Partners are: the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Free University Berlin, Technical University Berlin, the Museum of Natural History Berlin, die State Museums of Berlin and the German Museum in Munich.
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