The Optical Museum Jena is a scientific-technological museum.
The Optical Museum Jena shows optical instruments from eight centuries. It gives a technical and cultural-historical survey of the development of optical instruments. The development of the city Jena to the centre of the optical industries since the mid-19th-century is integrated in the exhibition, connected with the lifeworks of Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and Otto Schott.
In cooperation with the art club Jena non-optical themes are offered in special exhibitions.
The Optical Museum Jena is the only museum of its kind in Germany.
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