We cordially invite you to the virtual launch of the “University Collections Online” by the custody of the Technical University of Dresden (TUD).

May 5^th, 2021 from 10:00 am

Zoom: https://tu-dresden.zoom.us/j/86317211439?pwd=cWl0K3UzS2NGOHpkemZneVVQWHEwdz09 (Meeting-ID: 863 1721 1439, Password: L@wfA2J7)
YouTube Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-Z5scf_IqQh7koz7YLgRJA/videos

The TUD has unique and wide-ranging collections from teaching and research from the past 200 years, which are made digitally accessible to a specialist audience and a broader public with the "University Collections Online". The university teaching collections, in their diversity and heterogeneity, have become objects of knowledge and transfer. Herbarium specimens from the Dresdense herbarium, gear models, dyes from the time before industrialization, beetle collections from the forest zoological collections in Tharandt or mathematical models from geometry are just individual examples that reflect the diversity of scientific objects since the early 19th century and are samples of future technologies also give insights into and outlooks on current and future research. The unique art collection with works from Dresden and Saxony from 1945 to the present also illustrates the broad interest in collections of the institution.

With the introduction of the “University Collections Online”, the custody would like to increase the visibility of the outstanding bundles beyond the university boundaries. At the same time, the preservation, maintenance and management of the collections are to be optimized and the holdings are to be developed as an infrastructure for research and teaching at TUD. The license acquired by TUD is also available to all other Saxon universities for use in the future.

The database will be a valuable research tool for a broad, interested public as early as May 5th. In future, it will be available here: https://sammlungen.tu-dresden.de/.
Further information on the collections of the TU Dresden can be found on the website of the Custody www.tu-dresden.de/kustodie.