MUT Ancient Cultures Tübingen

40 000 years of cultural history

Use the app to discover the Museum of Ancient Cultures at Hohentübingen Castle, including objects from two UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The app of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT provides all the information you need for your visit - from opening hours and directions to admission prices.

For your local visit to Tübingen, you can select a highlight tour in various languages in the app. Choose between a German, English or Chinese audio guide tour. For children there is a specially developed audio tour with exciting stories from the Ice Age, Old Egypt and Ancient Greece.

On an area of 2000 m² the Museum aif Ancient Cultures shows around 4600 exhibits from seven archaeological and cultural collections of the University of Tübingen, ranging over a period of around 40,000 years of cultural history. Admire many superlatives of cultural history such as the oldest figurative art of mankind (UNESCO World Heritage "Ice Age Art") or the oldest musical instrument in the world. Learn more about the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Pile Dwellings", the Egyptian offering chamber of Seschemnefer III and the "Tübingen Hoplite".

At Hohentübingen Castle you can visit other superlatives outside the museum and next to the world's oldest giant barrel: The world's first biochemical laboratory, in which Felix Hoppe-Seyler researched and named hemoglobin and in 1869 Friedrich Miescher isolated the DNA substance, the "nucleus", for the first time, or the historically unique location of the so-called "Bohnenberger Observatory". The Museum of Ancient Cultures at Hohentübingen Castle presents only highlights from the university's archaeological and cultural history institutes at the castle. In addition, the 540-year-old University of Tübingen with its rich research, teaching and exhibition collections has an outstanding collection of objects from the history of science and culture. These extraordinary and highly differentiated collections are characterized by their age, their disciplinary diversity and universality. The Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT operates as a central organization for the approximately 70 collections with their approximately 135 individual collections and partial collections of the University of Tübingen - the largest number at any German university.