Museums in Jena
In Jena there are various different museums that are representative of the town’s manifold culture.
Optical Museum
Discover how optical instruments, such as spectacles, telescopes, microscopes and cameras, have developed over five centuries
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Botanical Garden
Approx. 10 000 plants from all climates of the earth grow outside and in greenhouses over an area of 4,5 hectares
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Goethe Memorial in the Botanical Gardens
J.W. Goethe spent over 5 years in Jena, counting all the month, weeks and days together
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Mineralogical Collection
The mineralogical collection was founded and further developed over 200 years ago with the help of Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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Ernst Haeckel House
The former house of the zoologist Ernst Haeckel was built 1882/83
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Phyletical Museum
The Phyletical Museum was founded by the well-known zoologist Ernst Haeckel in 1907
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Schiller’s Summer House
Nowhere else did Friedrich Schiller live and work continuously for such long periods of time as in Jena.
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Romanticist House
Now a literature museum, this is the former home of the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
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Jena municipal museum & art collection
Exhibitions illustrating the history and development
of the city, temporary exhibitions, the 7 Wonders of Jena
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SCHOTT GlasMuseum & SCHOTT Villa
The fascinating history of glass, the product and the technology, is documented in the GlasMuseum
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Imaginata
"Experimentarium for the senses" - Interactive exhibition presenting phenomena of natural sciences
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Museum 1806
Exhibition illustrating the prehistory and the course of the battle of Jena-Auerstedt on the 14th of October 1806
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