🇩🇪 8 March 2026. 235 years ago, author and political activist Olympe de Gouges published the Déclaration des droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne (Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens), and it took almost 200 years for them to be implemented in Western Europe. On the International Women’s Day, we traced the long road to their adoption, and took note of the important contributions made by women in Leipzig — with notable interludes to discussion where we stand today.

🇬🇧 7 February 2026. We explored new research on the benefits of diversity: Learning is enhanced when students tackle new concepts form a multitude of different perspectives. A team comes up with more diverse and better ideas when it involves specialists of many different disciplines. Ecosystems tend to be more resilient to external perturbations when they feature a higher biodiversity. How can our society profit from embracing diversity?

🇩🇪🧒 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.

🇩🇪 31 May 2026. The School Museum is currently hosting a special exhibition entitled “Freiräume für Bildung – Schule und Architektur im Dialog” (“open spaces for education – schools and architecture in dialogue”). We are taking this as an opportunity to venture out on a tour exploring old and new school buildings, as well as classic, still relevant, and brand-new educational concepts.