How clean is my water? How do I make my plants happy with sensor technology? Which substances threaten our drinking water? Where is water everywhere? Experience innovative water research from Thuringia at interactive stations.

Bee dwellings in centuries-old trees? Daredevil climbers on the way to their bee colonies? All this and much more awaits you at the stand on the history of beekeeping.

The use of handwriting is generally on the decline. Nevertheless, history can neither be understood nor written without knowledge of old scripts. We cordially invite you to try your hand at handwriting from past centuries.

A journey through physical worlds for young and old.

Everyone knows how to dance to music. But here we turn the tables! The MotionComposer is a device that creates music from your movements. Come along, try it out and become a virtuoso yourself!

Exciting experiments with laser beams and optical elements in the visible color spectrum - join us and get to know the world of photonics better!

Discover at our stand how well you can learn and recognize faces. We have prepared a small selection of short tests, just like the ones we use in real research.

Almost everyone has experienced in everyday life that sometimes a name is "on the tip of our tongue" but we can't recall it. Is this the reason why people use catchy nicknames - or do nicknames have completely different functions?

The image of Buddha has also been present in the West for several decades. But what did Buddha look like? What do the depictions convey? The small exhibition with a short lecture introduces different perspectives of the Buddha's face.

"Clouds fly higher during the day than at night" – is that true? Even without background knowledge, there are statements that you tend to believe and others that you are initially skeptical about. Note the significant role of the voice speaking.

Our society is changing - but how and why? And how do we deal with it? Hands-on activities and information from the Schumpeter Center

Discover the wonderful world of star villain Arsène Lupin in the mystery escape game Arsène Lupin - The Stowaway. Solve the puzzle, check alibis and catch the villain.

Soils are an indispensable component of ecosystems and act as filters, buffers and regulators in the water cycle. The forest soil with its humus layer is like a sponge that can absorb a lot of rainwater.

What the composition of sands reveals, what traces scorpions and worms left behind 290 million years ago, what instruments geoscientists use to explore the earth, and why a pinhead-sized creature was named Fossil of the Year.

Demonstration of "Laser marking and material processing with a laser engraver" and test setup for a laser beam control system as an experiment.