🇩🇪🧒 10 May 2026. On Mother’s Day, we organize a parent-and-child treasure hunt with time for solving puzzles and laughing together, and lots of fun with numbers. We look forward to seeing bright-eyed children and happy parents of all ages!

🇬🇧🇩🇪 23–25 May 2026. On the Towel Day weekend we’ll have a festival to mark the 25th anniversary of Douglas Adams death: Which of his prophecies have (almost) come true? What do we need to watch out for? How do we best embrace his advice: Don’t panic?

🇬🇧 23 May 2026. Trips to the Moon are a long-standing topic of the fantastic literature. On occasion of the SteamPunk festival in Leipzig we explore how the industrial revolution, with its technological advancements and scientific discoveries, changed their description in literature and art. Subsequently, we explore how the related new perception of Science, Technology, and Engineering impacted early space missions, and how the topic is presently undergoing a revival due to the interest of industrial tycoons in space travel and transhumanism. To finish off, we’ll join the SteamPunk picnic in the Clara Zetkin Park.

🇩🇪 13 June 2026. On the 12th of June 1776 the Fifth Virginia Convention at Williamsburg unanimously adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and merely three weeks later this was followed by the The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. We will explore how these events were perceived in England, in Europe, and in particular in Leipzig.

🇬🇧 11 Juli 2026. 200 years ago, Joseph Meyer founded the Bibliographisches Institut in Gotha, and his son moved it to Leipzig in 1874. The publishing house was known for its inexpensive editions of classics, encyclopedias such as Mayer’s Konversationslexikon, and as the publisher of the Duden, Brehm’s Tierleben, and the BI-Hochschultaschenbücher.