Forming part of the factory complex since 2005, the European Museum for Technical Ceramics shows that a highly profitable and future-oriented branch of the ceramics industry in the meantime lies in the technical field.

Unknown to most people, our museum brings to light things which in most cases remain concealed from view: in mechatronics and space travel, high tech and medicine, chemistry and high-voltage engineering, ceramics as a material has a vital role to play. No matter whether as a sealing washer in a coffee machine, a brake disk in a high-speed train, as a knee or an ankle joint in the human body, a printed circuit board in a computer, a thread guide in the textile industry, the surface coating on ski jumps, or the heat shield on the Space Shuttle – everywhere, ceramics is to be found – especially where you least expect it.

Just how it works and what it actually looks like is something you can find out in the museum at a wide range of interactive stations, with excellent didactical presentation. The full range of capabilities offered by porcelain and oxide ceramics, those great all-rounders, is clearly displayed – essential components in our modern world.