Hochschule Merseburg

The University of Applied Sciences Merseburg is a college in Merseburg, Saxony-Anhalt, and was founded on April 1, 1992, on the grounds of 1954-1993 existing technical college Leuna-Merseburg.

The German Chemical Museum Merseburg (dchm) was founded in 1993 on the campus Merseburg to represent the development of the chemical industry in central Germany on the basis of original equipment, apparatus and equipment (traditional large companies: Leuna-Werke and Buna-Werke ). The "Sachzeuge der chemischen Industrie e. V. (SCI) "established and run museum works closely together with the University of Merseburg.

The collection, created under the direction of Klaus Krug, consists of approx. 5000 objects, of which more than 300 can be visited in a technical park. The most important original exhibits are the ammonia synthesis chamber and the associated functional high-pressure circulation pump, both from the early years of large-scale ammonia synthesis 1916/1917 Leunawerk after the Haber-Bosch process (later Nobel prizes for the chemist Fritz Haber in 1919 and the Chemist, technician and industrialist Carl Bosch in 1931).

The SCI association has conceptually ensured that this museum combines the characteristics of a science centre, a museum and a collection of original equipment and apparatus of the chemical industry of the 20th century in a technical park. Since 1996, the projects "Chemistry to touch" and "Understanding technology" have been realized in cooperation with Merseburg University of Applied Sciences. The chairman of the SCI is Thomas Martin, Professor for Process Engineering / Mechanical and Thermal Processes at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences.

The German Chemistry Museum Merseburg on the university campus is considered unique in Europe and has world class.