Optical Museum

It is a logical mechanical historical center. The Optical Museum Jena indicates optical instruments from eight centuries. It gives a specialized and social chronicled overview of the advancement of optical instruments. The improvement of the city Jena to the focal point of the optical enterprises since the mid-nineteenth century is coordinated in the show, associated with the lifeworks of Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and Otto Schott. In collaboration with the craftsmanship club Jena non-optical topics are offered in exceptional presentations. Prior to the opening of the Zeiss Museum of Optics in Oberkochen in 2014, the Optical Museum Jena was the main exhibition hall of its kind in Germany.

Other than the creation of magnifying lens, Carl Zeiss assumed control repairing optical instruments of different makers. He did this to seek after the contentions advancement. At the abandon nineteenth to the twentieth century, the staff of the Carl Zeiss organization started to gather optical instruments. Johannes Schreiter and Hans Schlag composed a working for the 1917 established "school of ophthalmology". The accumulations were saved for a chosen gathering of individuals for reasons for inquire about and not open to people in general. Amid the Second World War in 1941/42, the show was migrated to underground creation offices around Jena.