SciLab — Deutsches Museum
Outreach for the 150th anniversary of electrical engineering and information technology at TUM, at the Deutsches Museum.
At our station in the Deutsches Museum — molecular models and simulations for visitors of all ages.
On 18 March 2026 TUM celebrated 150 years of electrical engineering and information technology with a public day at the Deutsches Museum — the interactive exhibition Of quanta, signals and neurosystems in the museum’s Science Communication Lab (SciLab).
I took part for the group of Prof. Alessio Gagliardi (Simulation of Nanosystems for Energy Conversion), bringing our computational chemistry to a museum audience. Together with colleagues we ran a hands-on station with physical molecular models and on-screen simulations, so visitors could connect atoms you can hold with the nanostructures we model for energy and materials — including work linked to our MDSI MiAMI metallacage project with the Casini group.
Families, school groups, and curious visitors kept the booth busy all day. As I wrote afterwards, the interest was striking — and we had a lot of fun with them.
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More on the anniversary programme: TUM CIT · SciLab, Deutsches Museum.
Event photos from SciLab / Deutsches Museum outreach (18 March 2026).