The Nobel Prize is the Oscar of science. Awarded annually in Stockholm, it has been the most prestigious international science prize for more than a hundred years. Among the award winners are 30 researchers from the Max Planck Society. This makes it one of the three institutions worldwide whose researchers have the most awards.

The exhibition "Pioneers of Science" tells how this research changed people's everyday lives and shaped the modern world - including Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, Paul Crutzen's ozone hole research and Karl Ziegler's patent for the production of polyethylene in 1953.

Eight stations explore pioneering scientific topics that changed the world from 1915 to the present day and are used to shape the future – all highlights from the history of the Max Planck Society. This is complemented in the exhibition by selected exhibits, for example reproductions of more than 20 Nobel Prize certificates or Klaus von Klitzing's laboratory diary, which documents his discovery of a new natural constant.

Please note that the special exhibition "Pioneers of Science" is closed on Sundays.