Throughout the summer semester, the University of Stuttgart's collection network will be exhibiting selected objects from the collections in the Rector's Office. As "witnesses to excellent research", they provide a glimpse into the history and research activities of the University of Stuttgart.
At the same time, further objects from the collection can be discovered at both locations of the University Library. The exhibitions can be found in the foyer of the UB Stadtmitte and in the reading room of the UB Vaihingen on level 3.
Exhibition poster and exhibits of the exhibition "Collection objects - witnesses of excellent research" in the Rector's Office.
Illustration: Depiction on the silver medal commemorating the 100th anniversary of Stuttgart Technical University in 1929
An owl, symbolizing wisdom and insight, sits in the center of a stylized tree. On the surrounding branches, five symbols represent the five departments of the university. The cogwheel stands for mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, the retort for chemistry, the compass for architecture, the stone for civil engineering and the drawing with a circle and cross for the general sciences, in which the subjects of mathematics, physics, economics, art history and others were represented. The stag poles from the Württemberg coat of arms locate the university in Swabia.
Information board and display cases with exhibits in the foyer of the University Library at the Stadtmitte site. The exhibition in the University Library is entitled "Collection objects - materials for excellent teaching".
A display case in the reading room of the university library in Vaihingen. It contains a directory of building surveys compiled between 1941 and 1950: "Loose collection of sheets in a binder with a list of building surveys and slides as well as a handwritten excerpt from the book 'Das deutsche Rathaus' by Karl Gruber (Munich, 1943, p. 183). Author: Harald Hanson (1900-1986), Chair of the former Institute for Building History and Building Recording. The historical image archive of Faculty 1 at ifag still has around 90,000 35mm slides and 30,000 large-format glass slides from the time before the extensive image databases on the Internet. Their value, which has not yet been precisely determined, is in documentary terms for buildings, plans and drawings that were lost due to time or war. The majority of these are reproductions from books, whereas the building photographs are originals. Precise records were kept of the production of slides in the in-house repro workshop."
