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Open House Campus Garching October 3

Discover and try things out: We have invited you to experience research up close for a whole day.

Aerial view of the Garching research campus in 2021.

At the Garching research campus, visitors were invited to experience science in lectures, hands-on activities, guided tours and much more. Whether young or old, there were numerous activities for every one on this day: students, staff and external guests. In addition to TUM, many other research institutions such as the Max Planck and Fraunhofer Institutes took part in the day of action.

At a glance

Address and directions

  • Underground: Garching-Forschungszentrum
  • Bus: Ludwig-Prandtl-Str.; Boltzmannstr.; Garching-Forschungszentrum; Technische Universität; MVV timetable information
  • Car: A9, exit Garching-Nord

Program highlights

Program overview (in German)

Participating institutes

Around 25 research institutions took part in the open house. Here you can see a selection of our university’s participating institutes.

Contact

Do you have questions? Contact our organisation team:
tag-der-offenen-tuerspam prevention@tum.de

Further information

You can get an overview of the campus and the action day program on the Garching research campus website (in Geman).

"Open Day" lettering with graphic elements on a dark blue background
Four girls with Die-Maus caps holding a petri dish. Andreas Heddergott / TUM

Germany-wide action day on October 3

Open House with the Mouse 2024

We also took part in the nationwide "Doors open with the Mouse" campaign day: some of our open house programs took place as part of the Mouse Door Opener Day.

More on the WDR action day

Further events on the topic of research

10 Apr 2025

Lecture series in the planetarium at the Garching research campus

ESO Supernova: Kosmisches Kino

  • Thursday, 4/10/2025
  • 7:00 pm

Event location
Campus Garching

Public event

Target audience
publically

Presenter
Dr. Stefan Gillessen

A gravitational monster lurks in the heart of our galaxy: a black hole that is four million times heavier than the Sun. We found it thanks to its enormous gravitational pull, which forces the stars in its vicinity into tight orbits. This stellar ballet is not only beautiful, it also tells us how gravity behaves in the immediate vicinity of a black hole.

How do you manage to get sharp images of dancing stars from the dust-covered centre of the Milky Way? The large telescopes in the Chilean Atacama Desert, which can see through dust clouds and compensate for the flickering of the Earth's atmosphere, provide the necessary image sharpness. With them, astronomers can determine star positions with an uncertainty that is smaller than a footprint on the Moon's dusty surface.

The spectacular measurements were honoured in 2020 with the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. But the case is by no means closed: observing a black hole is just too exciting. Will we ever see it rotate? What happens to gas clouds flying past it? And does Einstein's theory of gravity remain valid in view of the extreme forces?

Book your ticket now!

In this Kosmisches Kino, Stefan Gillessen from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial physics takes us on a journey from the large telescopes in Chile to the centre of our galaxy.

This event is in German.

Further events
  • 5/8/2025, 7 p.m. – Dr Frederick Groth (LMU) about TBA
  • 6/12/2025, 7 p.m. – Stefan Heigl (LMU) about young stars
  • 7/10/2025, 7 p.m. – Catarina Aydar (MPE) about supermassive black holes
  • August – summer break
  • 9/11/2025, 7 p.m. – Dr Francesca Capel (MPP) about astroparticles
  • 10/9/2025, 7 p.m. – Dr. David Cont (LMU) about exoplanets
  • 11/13/2025, 7 p.m. – Dr. Asmita Bhandare (LMU) about TBA
  • 12/11/2025, 7 p.m. – Sophie Vogt (LMU) about TBA
Additional information
How to find us
  • Location: Planetarium of the ESO Supernova, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, 85748 Garching
  • GPS coordinates: 48° 15' 36.90" N; 11° 40' 15.16" E

The ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Center is located 2 km northeast of Garching and 15 km northeast of Munich on the grounds of the research center.

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Funded as part of the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments

Event overview
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