Mathematikum
 Ascent from the west (Liebigstrasse) |
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| place | to water |
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Museum of Mathematics
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| architect | Peter Diehl (conversion) |
| opening | November 19, 2002 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 150,000 annually |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-737811 |
The Mathematikum in Gießen is the first mathematical interactive museum in the world. It was founded by Albrecht Beutelspacher and is located in the former main customs office .
The Science Center was opened by the then Federal President Johannes Rau on November 19, 2002 and offers exhibits related to mathematics . In May 2006 the 500,000. Visitors will be welcomed in February 2010 at the 1,045,957. Over 150,000 visitors visit the Mathematikum every year.
concept
The aim of the Mathematikum is to open a new door to mathematics for people of all ages, educational backgrounds and all genders through sensual experiences. Mathematics is not accessed via formulas or equations and hardly via symbols or numbers. Instead, visitors can gather mathematical experience at over 150 experiment stations under the motto “hands-on mathematics”. For example, there is the possibility of discovering the special properties of soap by putting it in a soap skin , creating figures on mirrors, recreating geometrical bodies or recreating the Leonardo Bridge from logs . By trying out and experimenting, the visitors are made unconsciously and easily "understandable" complex mathematical relationships. Your own astonishment leads you to ask yourself the first questions, to reflect and to find the first qualitative answers.
Visitors building a Leonardo bridge
Museum visitors in a soap-skin tube
Experiment to determine the circle number Pi
Pi as a wall decoration
Tree calendar
history
In 1993 Albrecht Beutelspacher organized the introductory seminar Geometric Models at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . The students had the task of developing and producing a geometric model and explaining the mathematics involved . In 1994 the resulting objects were shown in an exhibition under the title Mathematics to touch at the Institute for Didactics of Mathematics at the University of Giessen. Another exhibition took place in 1995 in the Nuremberg School Museum . In 1996, students at Giessen University again designed an exhibition on the subject of mathematics you can touch . In the course of this, the idea of founding a mathematics museum arose, and a support association was founded to implement it. The exhibition, developed in 1996, was professionally produced in 1998 and has since been shown as a traveling exhibition at home and abroad.
The plans for the realization of a mathematics museum with a permanent location became more concrete in 1999, but for financial reasons the implementation did not take place until 2001. Shortly before the end of 2000, the Hessian Minister for Science and Art, Ruth Wagner , gave the sponsoring association one million DM for the construction of the maths. In addition, the city of Giessen decided at the beginning of 2001 to purchase the former main customs office and made it available free of charge to the association for the creation of a mathematics museum. The groundbreaking ceremony took place in February 2002. After nine months of construction, the Mathematikum was opened on November 19, 2002 by Federal President Johannes Rau. In March 2003 the second floor was inaugurated and in November 2003 an event room and a new exhibition room were added. The most recent expansion took place in 2009, when the Mini-Mathematikum was opened on the 3rd floor of the Mathematikum.
Mini math course
The Mini-Mathematikum has existed as a permanent area of the Mathematikum since May 1, 2009. After previous temporary exhibitions, it was set up on a stationary floor in the Mathematikum building. The exhibition is aimed primarily at very young visitors between the ages of four and eight. The experiments are specially designed for this age group and cover basic mathematics such as numbers , shapes and patterns .
On the occasion of the 10th birthday of the Mini-Mathematikum, some of the experiments were revised or replaced by completely new stations, which were presented on September 24, 2019.
Traveling exhibition and collaborations
The permanent exhibition of the Mathematikum developed from the exhibition Mathematics to touch , which Beutelspacher worked on with students from 1994 onwards. This exhibition was professionalized from 1998 and tested by around 10,000 people during the international mathematicians' congress in Berlin. Since then it has been used as a traveling exhibition at schools, universities, museums and credit institutions in Germany and abroad. Around 25 exhibitions are still organized every year. Schools and other interested parties can book the exhibition.
In addition, the Mathematikum also produces exhibits for other science centers. In 2007, for example, exhibits were handed over to the Dynamikum in Pirmasens , and exhibits there were inspired by the Mathematikum. The same applies to the Mathematics Adventure Land , which opened in Dresden in September 2008. The exhibition there was developed based on the Giessen model and equipped with some experiments made in the Mathematikum.
Additional events
In the Mathematikum, additional events such as children's lectures, advanced training for teachers and lectures on various mathematical topics take place monthly.
Special exhibitions
For several years now, the Mathematikum has been developing special exhibitions on topics that are closely or broadly related to mathematics and that follow the principle of hands on - minds on - hearts on :
- “BlickPunkte - optical phenomena, fascinating illusions, amazing findings” - 2006/2007, 2009, 2011/2012
- “Rätsel!” (Puzzle games and riddles) - winter 2009/2010
- "NaturTalente" (mathematics and nature) - summer 2010
- “Don't get me wrong!” (Language) - Winter 2010/2011
- “What a coincidence” - summer 2011, spring 2014
- "I love Sophia - discover philosophy" - winter 2012/13
- "Moving Moments" - Summer 2013
- " ZEITich " - winter 2013/14
- " Everyday 1x1 " (mathematics in everyday life) - winter 2014/15
- “ You can count on that! “(Historical calculation tools) - Winter 2015 to Spring 2016
- " Paths - between start and finish " - summer 2016 to winter 2017
- " Calculating a Stifel " - Winter 2017/18
- " Best of 15 " (on the occasion of the 15th anniversary) - winter 2017/18
- " Roots of Mathematics " (Development of Mathematics around the World) - Summer-Winter 2017/18
- " No end in sight " (infinity) - summer-winter 2018/19
- " Leonardo in the Mathematikum " (Leonardo da Vinci) - spring 2019 - spring 2020
In addition, there are regular art exhibitions under the motto "Art in the Mathematikum". Well-known artists such as James Rizzi (2004), Janosch (2005), Christo (2006), Volker Kühn (2007), David Gerstein (2008), Victor Vasarely (2009) have already been shown in collaboration and with the initiative of Wetzlar galleries . In cooperation with the Caricatura Museum Frankfurt Museum für Komische Kunst , works by Robert Gernhardt (2010) and FW Bernstein (2011) were also presented. In the anniversary exhibition “Math makes fun!” In 2012, the works of 45 cartoonists were finally exhibited.
Since May 2020 caricatures by the French draftsman Jean Bosc have been shown under the name "Jean Bosc - Something's Not Right Here".
With the exhibition series “Contemporary Mathematical Art”, the Mathematikum provides a further approach to mathematics. Once a year it exhibits artists who combine the two disciplines of art and mathematics in their work. The artists already exhibited include Gerhard Hotter (2009) and Jo Niemeyer (2012). Ulrich Mikloweit , Friedhelm Kürpig , Rinus Roelofs (NL) and Ueli Wittorf (CH) were on view in the joint exhibition “Corners and Edges across Europe” (2014) .
Awards and interesting things
- 2004 German IQ Prize
- 2006 Selected location 2006 by the initiative Germany - Land of Ideas
- 2008 Hessian Culture Prize
- 2010 Special prize as part of the museum prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen.
On June 5, 2004, was in Mathematikum Pi -Vorleseweltrekord erected. For 30 hours, a total of 108,000 decimal places of the circle number were presented by over 300 people.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathematikum: Geschichte, accessed on April 17, 2014
- ↑ Simone Linne: All of Central Hesse visits the Mathematikum: 1,045,957 visitors . In: Gießener Zeitung, February 12, 2010
- ^ Mathematikum: Das Museum, accessed on April 17, 2014 ( Memento from May 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen (Ed.): The Mini-Mathematikum in the Mathematikum in Giessen. Darmstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2376-6 .
- ^ Ceremonial handover for Dynamikum attraction , press release from October 29, 2007
- ^ Adventure Land Mathematics ( Memento from February 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at TU Dresden
- ↑ Press release of the Hessian State Chancellery of January 18, 2008
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