8. juni 2024 – 31. december 2026
Um drei Ecken gedacht – Rechenschieber und Vermessung
Historical special-purpose slide rules and ornate surveying instruments show how fields, towers and hills were measured in the past.
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Arithmeum
University of Bonn museum on the history of calculation, with a world-class collection of historical calculating machines plus chip design and art.
ÅbningstiderEntré fra 3 € Kørestolsvenlig
Aktuelle udstillinger
11. oktober 2025 – 31. december 2026
Hans Jörg Glattfelder im Arithmeum – Aufbruch zu neuen Dimensionen
Retrospective of the Swiss artist of geometric-constructive art, with works from the 1970s to the present.
11. oktober 2025 – 28. februar 2027
Eine Goldmedaille für die Multiplikation – Léon Bollée (1870–1913) und seine Erfindungen
The calculating machines of French inventor Léon Bollée, including his direct-multiplication machine of 1889, on loan from Le Mans.
13. juni 2026 – 20. juni 2027
Die Kunstkammer Pohl-Goldschmidt
Precious mathematical and scientific instruments of the Renaissance from a private collection, originally made for princely cabinets of curiosities.
Om museet
The Arithmeum is based on the collection of Bonn mathematician Bernhard Korte, who began collecting mechanical calculating machines as a student – precisely in the 1970s, when electronics were displacing mechanics. From this core grew a collection that today numbers more than 10,000 objects, including calculating machines, historical computers, slide rules and an extensive library on the history of mathematics.
The museum is a central institution of the University of Bonn and shares a new building on Lennéstraße with the Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics. The building, with its delicate steel-and-glass facade, is meant to make the openness of science visible; the permanent exhibition "Rechnen einst und heute" (Calculating Then and Now) has been on view since September 1999.
The tour runs chronologically from counting stones, abacus and counting table through replicas and originals of the great inventors of calculating machines to industrial mass production, the beginnings of data processing and the Enigma. A separate section bridges the gap to the institute's current research on microchip design. The program is complemented by special exhibitions on the history of instruments, presentations of geometric-constructive art from the museum's own collection and the concert series "concerto discreto".
Højdepunkter
- One of the most extensive collections of historical calculating machines in the world
- Calculating machines that visitors can try out themselves
- Enigma and Hollerith machine from the early days of data processing
- Section on the mathematics and aesthetics of chip design
- Changing exhibitions of geometric-constructive art
Permanente udstillinger
- Rechnen einst und heute – A chronological walk through the history of mechanical calculation up to early computers, cryptography and modern chip design, partly with machines to try out.
- Grundlagt
- 1999
- Ejer
- Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Forschungsinstitut für Diskrete Mathematik
- Ledelse
- Ina Prinz
Entrépriser & rabatter
| Voksne | 3 € |
|---|---|
| Nedsat pris | 2 €School students, university students, trainees |
| Børn og unge | 2 €Children free until they start school, then student price |
| Pensionister | –No senior discount listed |
| Personer med handicap | gratisledsager gratis · People with severe disabilities and their necessary companions free |
| Studerende og elever | 2 € |
| Grupper (fra 7 pers.) | –Groups of 7 to a maximum of 60 people only with a guided tour or by appointment. Guided tour (60–90 min.) €25 plus admission per person; no tour fee for school classes. |
| Familier | 8 € |
Public guided tours on weekends without a tour fee (admission only). Children's programs, workshops and children's birthday parties €25 program fee plus €6 per participant.
Tilgængelighed
- Kørestolsvenlig
- Elevator
- Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
- Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
- Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
- Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
- Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
- Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
- Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger
According to Bonn's accessibility portal, wheelchair-accessible with elevators; no information on the official website.
Børn og familie
Velegnet til børn og familier
| Familiebillet | 8 € |
|---|
- Familieomvisninger & workshops
- Opgavehæfte, skattejagt eller audioguide for børn
- Børnefødselsdage
Rally sets through the permanent exhibition for children from preschool age; workshops from preschool to upper secondary school; children's birthday parties (€25 program fee plus €6 per child).
Transport & parkering
Med offentlig transport
Universität/Markt
Subway to Universität/Markt; train, tram and buses to Bonn Hauptbahnhof.
I bil
Parkering muligt
No parking directly at the museum; the museum refers visitors to the parking garages in the city center. Wheelchair users can reserve a parking space in advance by phone.
Service & spisesteder
- Museumsbutik
Shop with catalogs, books and chip-design items.
Arrangementer & udlejning
Museet har ikke offentliggjort oplysninger om dette – spørg venligst museet direkte.
Planlæg dit besøg
| Rundvisninger | ja · varighed ca. 60 min. |
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| Tilbud til skoler | ja |
| Godt at vide | Free public guided tours on weekends (permanent exhibition Sundays at 11:00, special exhibitions Saturday and Sunday afternoons). Group tours and workshops for daycare through upper secondary school and for adults by advance booking (Mon–Fri 9:00–18:00, tel. 0228 738790 or arithmeum@or.uni-bonn.de). Regular Monday concerts in the "concerto discreto" series. Tours last 60–90 minutes, as requested. |
