Events

The anniversary year will conclude with Dies Academicus 2018, the perfect occasion for a look to the university's future.

“Innovation since 1868”: This guiding vision in the history of TUM not only applies to the past, but also to the future. Accordingly, each year TUM motivates scientists to realize their ideas as innovative and competitively deployed spin-offs.

During its own anniversary year TUM is also remembering the 100th birthday of one of its most prominent students and professors.

In October 2018 TUM once again expects to welcome 10,000 new students from all around the world.

Take your anniversary selfie in our FoTUMat: Congratulate on 150 years of Technical University of Munich (TUM) with a photo from our photo booth – the FoTUMat.

TUM will open its doors to the general public in the fall of this anniversary year.

The Architectural Museum will for the first time feature a complete survey of the architecture in the Kingdom of Bavaria under Ludwig II (1864 – 1886) on the occasion of the 150th birthday of his university. The president of TUM will open the exhibit on September 25, 2018.

The world's best collegiate beach volleyball players are coming to Munich to participate in the 9th Students' World Championship (WUC) in Beach Volleyball during this anniversary year.

Engineers play the starring roles in the exhibit Visionaries and Everyday Heroes. Engineers – Building – the Future (“Visionäre und Alltagshelden. Ingenieure – Bauen – Zukunft”). It is they who work as inventors, designers and entrepreneurs in construction in order to fulfill the basic needs of society.

Take your anniversary selfie in our FoTUMat: Congratulate on 150 years of Technical University of Munich (TUM) with a photo from our photo booth – the FoTUMat. Now on tour in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan.

This year's anniversary of our alma mater's founding raises the question: Why sit in the lecture hall when the weather is nice outside and you could be partying in the TUNIX beer garden instead?

From June 11 through 15 the Garching campus will once again be filled with summer, sun, and nothing at all, or “GARNIX”! The student team has once again spared no expense to make sure nothing is lacking for all those enjoying "GARNIX" on the campus chemistry field.

Take your anniversary selfie in our FoTUMat: Congratulate on 150 years of Technical University of Munich (TUM) with a photo from our photo booth – the FoTUMat. Now on tour in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan.

This symposium constitutes a key event of TUM's 150th Anniversary celebrations, thus providing a platform for exchange and networking between the leadership of the world’s top universities and stakeholders from academia and industry.

Take your anniversary selfie in our FoTUMat: Congratulate on 150 years of Technical University of Munich (TUM) with a photo from our photo booth – the FoTUMat. Now on tour in Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan.

On May 17, 2018 the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism will open its special exhibit on the history of the “Technische Hochschule München” (today's Technical University of Munich) during the National Socialist era.

Karl Max von Bauernfeind had just turned 50 years of age when he founded the new "Technische Hochshule München" in December 1868. This means the TUM anniversary year also coincides with the 200th anniversary of his birth.

For the fourth time, students and staff will enjoy the truly Bavarian spirit of a Maypole festival, assisted by over 200 volunteer helpers. This year the event will take place at the Garching campus, coinciding with the opening of GALILEO.

On April 12, 2018, the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Technical University of Munich, we will hold ecumenical religious services in the university church St. Markus in Munich with the theme “Belief and Knowledge”.

Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, founded what is today the Technical University of Munich (TUM) on April 12, 1868. Gala ceremonies in the Herkulessaal of Munich's Residenz marking TUM's 150th anniversary will be attended by invited guests from the sciences, politics, business, culture and the community to commemorate this momentous historical event.

On the occasion of the 150th birthday of TUM the Immatriculation Hall, the central location of the main building on Arcisstraße, will feature an installation on the history of the Technical University of Munich (TUM).