Zahnmedizinische Sammlung Tübingen

About the museum

Tübingen has had a professorship in dentistry since 1910. Its first director, Hermann Peckert (1876–1940), laid the foundation of the collection, which is housed on the ground floor of the Zentrum für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde (Center for Dental, Oral, and Maxillofacial Medicine).

In the award-winning DENTAL | THINGS project, the Museum der Universität Tübingen (MUT) and the dental clinic turned the teaching collection into a museum. Objects from all fields of dentistry are shown as examples, together with research and teaching. Display panels explain the history of the field in general and in Tübingen in particular, referring to exhibits from the 16th century to the present. The often odd objects were newly staged with scenographic design.

The collection is one of the individual collections of the MUT. Due to construction work, it is not open to the public for the time being.

Highlights

• Holy Apollonia, patron saint of dentists (plaster, early 20th century)
• Obturator prosthesis made of rubber
• Pelikan, a historical tooth-extraction instrument
• Objects from the 16th century to the present

Permanent exhibition

• DENTAL | THINGS – Museum presentation of the dental teaching collection, with display panels on the history of the field and objects from the 16th century to today.

Operated by

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Museum der Universität Tübingen MUT, Zentrum für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde)

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Admission is free.

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