Guided Tours

Please note that the number of participants for our guided tours is limited. Please register now using the link buttons.

Guided tour of the current exhibition "The Preserved View

17-22 h | on the hour | meeting point: main foyer

Our current exhibition features moving images and audio documents. You can also take a look at the famous Maya Codex.

To register for the guided tours: 5pm6pm7pm8pm9pm10pm


The SLUB as hardly anyone knows it

5.15 p.m. | 7.30 p.m. | 8.45 p.m. - Meeting point: main foyer (turnstile).

Join us on a tour of discovery: to library services that not everyone knows about. Did you know that you can play the piano in the middle of the library? Or that we have a library of things? No? Then you'd better register for this guided tour.

To register for the guided tours: 5.15 p.m.7.30 p.m. 8.45 p.m.


Guided tour of the photo workshop and archive of the Deutsche Fotothek

6 p.m. | 8 p.m. - Meeting point: Main Foyer

From analogue to digital, from photo campaigns to high-quality reproductions - we offer an insight into the photo workshop and the archive of the Deutsche Fotothek as one of the largest German picture archives.

To register for the guided tours: 6 p.m.8p.m.


Listen up: Here you can have your say!

6 p.m. | 8.30 p.m. | 10 p.m. - Meeting point: main foyer (turnstile).

In the SLUB podcast studio you will get the chance to feel like a radio presenter or podcaster yourself. Feel free to bring your favourite text and bring it to life thanks to professional sound technology! Alternatively, with AI support, a poem tailored to you and your ideas will be created.

To register for this offer: 6 p.m.8.30 p.m. 10 p.m.


Guided tour map collection

7 p.m. | 9 p.m. - Meeting point: main foyer.

Long Night of Maps - this source presentation features selected treasures from the map collection in which night becomes day - and vice versa.

To register for the guided tours:7pm21pm


Culinary arts in film

7.15 pm | 8.15 pm | 9.15 pm - Food Studio

How can preparations for a feast, the aroma of delicious food or the processing of exquisite products be depicted in film? In the FoodStudio, the workroom of the German Culinary Archive, we will present the processing of culinary art in film in three short lectures.

To register for this offer: 7.15 PM 8.15 PM 9.15 PM


What is a Makerspace? - A tour for children and adults

5.30 p.m. | 7 p.m. - Meeting place: Foyer DrePunct (Zellescher Weg 17)

Knowledge comes from doing! How do laser cutters, 3D printers and co. help you understand engineering and technologies? On this tour we will discover the SLUB Makerspace and learn how knowledge is created through trial and error.

To register for the tours: 5.30 pm7 pm