Goethe Laboratorium

The new permanent exhibition at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, curated by Helmut Hühn (Jena) and Margrit Wyder (Zurich), is a place where the basics of Goethe's study of nature are brought to life and the sciences and their history are explored at the same time. Entitled Moving Order, the new permanent exhibition in the Inspector's House in the Botanical Garden shows Goethe's commitment to the natural sciences, which is closely linked to the University of Jena. The exhibition brings to mind the fundamentals of Goethe's study of nature (morphology and the theory of metamorphosis) and invites visitors to consciously perceive them. It illustrates the problems and methods of Goethe's geology, anatomy and botany, but also presents - using exemplary objects - those of meteorology, palaeontology and color theory.

Involved in teaching, research and transfer, the Goethe Laboratorium is to be developed as a university location that brings the humanities and natural sciences into interaction and links them with the cognitive achievements of the arts.