Lunch break with the Office for Academic Heritage! "Collection over lunch" in the Collection of Precision Engineering, June 11th, 2026, 12 noon

The Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections is continuing its "Collection over lunch" series of guided tours throughout the 2026 summer semester. During these events, the collection curators will introduce heir collections, show unusual objects and present current uses of historical teaching materials and exhibits.  This semester, the Collection of Precision Engineering in the Barkhausen Bau will open its doors on June 11th, 2026,  with the Dye Collection in the König Bau following on July 9th, 2026.

A visit to the Collection of Precision Engineering will kick off the tours during summer semester 2026. The first teaching collection for precision engineering at TU Dresden can be traced back to the late 1920s. The historical core of today's collection goes back to Siegfried Hildebrand, who was appointed Chair of Precision Engineering in 1952. As the former plant manager of the Dresden company Seidel & Naumann AG , he was able to take over numerous items from the company's collection. He also received objects from Siemens & Halske, where he had worked for several years as a development engineer, as well as important exhibits from the collection of the VEB Wanderer-Werke in Chemnitz.

The Office for Academic Heritage and the collection invite TUD staff and students as well as interested members of the public to a guided tour which will offer exciting and entertaining insights into the collection.The excursion into the history of precision engineering will be led by Dipl.-Ing. Iris Bönisch.

Date

Thursday, June 11, 2026
12 noon

Venue

Barkhausen-Bau, Helmholtzstraße 18, 01069 Dresden
Wing C, Room S3
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