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What will tomorrow’s energy supply look like—and what aspects of it are already a reality in Jena today? The City of Jena’s exhibition “ENERGY—WHAT MOVES US” provides answers to these and other questions about the energy transition.

How is brain age determined using an MRI scan, how does lifestyle influence it, and what does this have to do with the menopause?

Which photos are real, and which are AI-generated? Submit your guess, get advice—from a person or a machine—and make a new decision. With live results: How is the audience doing, and whose advice carries more weight?

Two years before the opening, you’ll get a sneak peek at this innovative exhibition: You’ll have the chance to interact with historical objects yourself, gaining unique insights, all enhanced by interactive stations on optics and photonics.

For over 130 years, ZEISS camera lenses have been impressing users with their unique quality. In collaboration with vivo, ZEISS is developing smartphone cameras that bring the ZEISS Portrait Style to your phone. Tessar, Biogon, Sonnar—capture portraits with the legendary ZEISS look.

People often synchronize their movements unconsciously. Through a brief physical activity and a cooperative game, participants can experience how synchrony can influence teamwork.

Here, you can build your own AI to take with you and train it to become unbeatable in a logic game. Along the way, you'll learn about the basic principles of machine learning.

Explore virtual worlds, discover digital cultural heritage, and take a journey through Jena's history

Making its debut! Take a look at the fascinating plant collection at the Haussknecht Herbarium. Discover what a plant specimen more than 100 years old reveals about the future—and how AI helps us unravel the mysteries of plants!

The enchanted forest, the big bad wolf, the wicked witch, the gingerbread house—we all have images from fairy tales in our minds. But where do these ideas come from? And what happens when we retell them?

Biological and social factors influence the way we speak. Find out about the research into the link between hormones, social influences and vocal differences between men and women.

What might current concepts and technologies for local supply look like? During hourly lab tours, we showcase digital applications, smart store technologies, and research approaches at the Local Supply Real-World Lab.

A mobile robot demonstrates fully autonomous inventory tracking of books and clothing items equipped with UHF RFID tags. A book believed to have been lost in a library is located, with an accuracy of within a few 10 cm.

Digitalization, Industry 4.0, and robotics are also making their way into vocational and academic training at ZEISS. Our trainees and students will present their latest robot programming projects to you live.