The Virtual Laboratory (VL) is a digitalization project devoted to the history of the experimentalization of life. Its main focus is the interaction between the life sciences, arts and architecture, media and technology. It consists of two related parts, an archive and an essay section. As an archive, the VL offers numerous scans of texts and images concerning experiments, instruments, buildings, scientists and artists between 1830 and 1930. The essay section constitutes a platform where historians of science, culture and technology as well as students can present their recent research on the experimentalization of life and explore new modes of writing history.

Press Reports:

• Das Virtuelle Labor. Klassische Experimente der Lebenswissenschaften im Internet
  WDR5 Radio-Feature, 12. Februar 2002 / (PDF-File < 100 kB)
  
  
• Virtuelle Tierversuche
  Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 9. Mai 2001 (PDF-File 1 MB)
  
  
• Max-Planck Institut plant Wissenschafts-Website:
  Physiologie-Anfänge sollen im virtuellen Labor verewigt werden
  G.O. - Wissen Online, January 22, 2001 / (PDF-File < 100 kB)
  
  
• Virtuelles Labor soll Wissenschaftgeschichte lebendig machen
  c't - magazin für Computertechnik 2 / 2001 / (PDF-File < 100 kB)
  
  
• Virtual lab brings science to life
  Sletten, Bladet på DTU, January 14, 2001 / (PDF-File < 100 kB)
  
  
• Wirtualne laboratorium
  PC.com.pl, January 14, 2001 / (PDF-File < 100 kB)
  
  
• Virtual lab brings science to life
  BBC News, January 14, 2001 / (PDF-File < 100 kB)
  
  
• Virtual laboratory will recreate classic biology experiments
  Nature, Vol. 408, December 14, 2000 (PDF-File 170 kB)