Museum Night at the Dresden Technology Collections

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Ernst Hirsch mit seiner Kamerasammlung | Foto: © Amac Garbe

UNIVERSUM Dresden. The filmmaker and film collector Ernst Hirsch

6.00 pm to midnight / UNIVERSUM Dresden. Filmmaker and film collector Ernst Hirsch
This year, Ernst Hirsch is celebrating his 90th birthday, and a major special exhibition is dedicated to his life’s work. Alongside images of old Dresden, of destruction and reconstruction, the films offer fascinating insights into everyday life in the city and the early days of amateur filmmaking. Footage of interviews with former Dresden Jews, which Hirsch conducted in Israel in 1997, will be shown for the first time. (1st floor)

7.00 pm to 9.00 pm / Friends and companions in conversation with and about Ernst Hirsch
Ernst Hirsch’s companions will use selected film clips to recount various phases of the filmmaker’s life and career, including his work in the 1980s, the period of German reunification, the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche, and the digitisation of his film collection. The discussions offer insights into personal memories and the significance of his cinematic legacy. Panel guests: Ernst Hirsch, Hans-Peter Lühr, Konrad Hirsch, Hans-Christian Hoch, André Eckardt. (Emanuel Goldberg Hall)

18:30 / 20:00 / 23:00 / Guided tours of the special exhibition ‘
’ The young curatorial team of Luise Eberspächer and Nils Braune will guide visitors through the new special exhibition and explain why the subject of historical film remains relevant today. (1st floor)

9.30 pm / The Eye of Dresden – Ernst Hirsch Retrospective
The focus is on historical film footage of Dresden from before 1945 from the Ernst Hirsch collection. The programme is complemented by the filmmaker’s own footage from the 1950s and 60s of the reconstruction of the Zwinger, the Hofkirche and what is now Wilsdruffer Straße, as well as footage of the Frauenkirche from the 1990s.
With live commentary by curators André Hennig and Lukas Schneider, accompanied by Johannes Gerstengarbe (guitar).
A collaboration with the SAVE regional programme of the Saxon State Library – Dresden State and University Library and the Saxony Film Association (Museum Cinema, 2nd floor)

About the exhibition

Trickfilmworkshop | Foto: © Fantasia e. V.

Workshops

18:00 to 22:00 / Animation workshop
– Open to families
Using cardboard and scissors, children design silhouette figures, which they then animate in short films on the animation table. (2nd floor)
Ages 8 and over

18:00 to 24:00 / Wonderland of Photography
Analogue photography using a large-format camera from Dresdner Kamerawerke, followed by group developing in the darkroom
In the photography workshop on the 5th floor
For families & adults

18:00 to 22:00 / Pictures that Come to Life
The world’s oldest illusion: hand-painted pictures become a flip book and a thaumatrope is discovered (2nd floor)
Ages 6 and over

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Escape Room »Katze Q« in den Technischen Sammlungen | Foto: © Tobias Ritz

Escape Room Experience Cat Q

18.30 / 20:00 / 21.30 / A quantum adventure for the whole family

The escape room "Cat Q - A Quantum Adventure" lures children, teenagers and adults into the extraordinary universe of Cat Q. The mysterious box with four rooms invites you to explore the crazy quantum world with all your senses and find out whether Cat Q is dead or alive.
Ages 11 and up

Registration at the box office

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The digitisation of the sense of smell

6.00 pm to midnight / Scientists in dialogue

In the interactive science exhibition ‘The Future of Smell – From the Nose to Smelling Machines’, researchers from the Department of Materials Science and Nanotechnology at TU Dresden will present the medical, psychological and technical aspects of smell. (Research Showcase, 5th floor)

About the exhibition

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The World of Maths

19:00 / 20:00 / 21:00 / 22:00 / Maths Live

Over 100 interactive and experimental stations spark curiosity about maths and invite visitors to get involved, think for themselves and be amazed. Every hour on the hour, we’ll be taking a closer look at individual exhibits.

About the exhibition

18:00 to 24:00 / Magical Eyes Hear More
Guided tours of the Radiodepot with the Friends’ Association

18:00 to 24:00 / Magical computers
Demonstrations of information and computing technology by the Friends’ Association

18:00 to 24:00 / Around the world with a piece of wire
Hands-on technology through DIY projects at the DLR_School_Lab

6.00 pm to midnight / Beyond the Milky Way
Stargazing with the Radebeul Astro Club on the Ernemann Tower (weather permitting)

18:00 to 24:00 / Culinary delights at the Tumcafé
presented by Speisewerk