4. Conference “Collections of Chemical Specimens”

Online at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88609374533?pwd=YM73wvekJDbB5VHQxQkhQThCao2w7h.1
Meeting-ID: 886 0937 4533 - Friday, 21st, February 2025
Program:

09:00 – 09:10 Edwin Kroke (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, TUBAF): Welcome and organizational remarks
09:10 – 09:40 Norman Pohl (TUBAF): The Clemens Winkler Memorial at TU Bergakademie Freiberg
09:40 – 10:10 Klaus Möschel (Universität Tübingen): Die Physiologisch-Chemische Präparatesammlung der
Universität Tübingen
10:10 – 10:40 Elke Cwiertnia (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz): The material
collection at the Rathgen-Forschungslabor Berlin – references for the analysis of artists’
materials and cultural objects with a focus on organic material samples
10:40 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:20 Leonardo Pantoja (Middlesex University, London): The “Wittislingen” Collection of Inorganic
Chemical Specimens
11:20 – 11:50 Annette Marquardt, Bettina Wahrig (TU Braunschweig): Die Arzneimittelhistorische
Sammlung der TU Braunschweig – Digitalisierung, Präsentation und Nutzung
11:50 – 12:20 Andreas Benz (TUBAF): Sozialistische Planwirtschaft in Ampullen – Die „Sammlung für
technische Chemie“ der TU Bergakademie Freiberg
12:20 – 13:10 Lunch break
13:10 – 13:40 Christian Seitz, David Paprotta, Denis Schuldeis, Joachim Preinl, Claudia Huber, Wolfgang
Eisenreich (TU München): Digitalisierung, Präsentation und Nutzungsmöglichkeiten der
Hans-Fischer Sammlung: Erste Schritte, Ergebnisse und Überraschungen
13:40 – 14:10 Peter J. T. Morris (Science Museum and UC London): Three important collections of
chemicals at the Science Museum, London
14:10 – 14:40 Susanne Rehn-Taube (Deutsches Museum, München): Die chemische Sammlung im
Deutschen Museum - Farbstoffe und mehr
14:40 – 15:10 Edwin Kroke, Georg Franze, Marcus Herbig, Andrea Brünner (TUBAF): The Clemens-Winkler-
Collection of inorganic specimens – in the past, present and future
15:10 Final discussion and concluding remarks

We hereby cordially invite you to the 4^th conference “Collections of Chemical Specimens”. In
short lectures lasting a maximum of 30 minutes - similar to previous events - the challenges
of storing, recording, analysing, digitizing and using chemical preparations will be discussed.
The focus is on scientifically and culturally significant collections and includes chemical
preparations in all their diversity: from objects from research and development laboratories
to product samples to preparations from pharmacies.

The event will take place online on Friday, February 21^st, 2025 starting at 9:00 a.m.,
participation is free of charge. Registrations, stating a short title, are requested by December
31^st, 2024 to be sent to the contact persons listed below.