Publications by the Office for Academic Heritage

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2025

Jörg Zaun und Kirsten Vincenz:

The Object Tableau as a Didactic Form of Knowledge Representation

in: Objects of Understanding. Historical Prespectives on Material Artefacts and Practices of Science Education, ed. by Peter Heering and Roland Wittje, Stuttgart 2025, pp. 145-162.

2024

Scientific and Art Collections. TUD Dresden University of Technology

ed. by the Rector of TUD
200 pages, 225 most coloured Figures
ISBN 978-3-95498-820-4
Bookstore price: 20 €

The extensive natural science and engineering collections as well as the significant art holdings of TUD Dresden University of Technology document almost 200 years of history of knowledge transfer and generation. The publication "Scientific and Art Collections" presents twelve TU Dresden collections in detail for the first time. In her introduction, Kirsten Vincenz, Director of the Office for Academic Hertitage at the TUD, highlights the developments of recent years and the perspectives of university collections.

The printed version can be ordered from the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections of TUD (), the publishing house Sandstein Kommunikation or in bookstores.

Open Access edition:
DOI 10.25368/2024.142

2020

Buildings and their Names: The Campus development of the TU Dresden

Ed. by the Office for Academic Heritage of TU Dresden

The publication describes the development of the campus of TUD Dresden University of Technology in five chapters. The focus is on the buildings named after important personalities. The history of their conception and construction, their equipment for research and teaching as well as conversions and changes of use are each supplemented by a short biography of the patron. A separate chapter is dedicated to the development of the Forestry Academy in Tharandt, which is now part of the TUD as the Department of Forest Sciences.

Price: 12 €, also available at Uni Shop of TU Dresden or in bookstores

Collections of the TU Dresden

ed. by the Office for Academic Heritage of TU Dresden.

The collection booklet presents the 40 collections of the TUD Dresden University of Technology with information about the holdings and contact persons. Richly illustrated, it gives an impression of the diversity of the university's teaching and research objects.