Ansicht des Inspektorhauses im Botanischen Garten

Goethe-Laboratorium

The new permanent exhibition of the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena in the old inspector's house of the Botanical Garden, which will be integrated into research and teaching.
Ansicht des Inspektorhauses im Botanischen Garten
Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)

»It is a pleasant business to study nature and oneself at the same time, without doing violence to either, but to bring both into balance with each other through gentle interplay.«                                                                                                        – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Proverbs in Prose 1.369

The new permanent exhibition at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, curated by Helmut Hühn (Jena) and Margrit Wyder (Zurich), is a place where the fundamentals of Goethe's study of nature are brought to mind and at the same time the sciences and their history are explored.

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.

Goethe-Laboratorium

Inspektorhaus
Fürstengraben 26
07743 Jena

Opening hours:
Wednesday to Sunday: 11:00 AM to 17:00 PM