🇩🇪 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.

🇩🇪 10 Oktober 2026. In the past centuries news papers, photography, and printing technology, cinema, radio, TV, and the internet succeeded one another as new media — and each of them contributed to societal changes. What were the impacts on the global and the local scale? How did scientists and businessmem in Leipzig contribute to the changes?

🇩🇪 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.

🇩🇪🧒 7 November 2026. This year, the WissensSpuren organize the festival “Tag des Vergessens. Und des Erinnerns!” in cooperation with the GRASSI Museum of Ethnology and the University of Leipzig’s Museum of Musical Instruments at GRASSI. Together with other friends and partners, we contemplate what is worth remembering, what should be forgotten, and how to preserve what is important. Come along — to participate, to exchange ideas, to marvel.