Public Collections

For 300 years, the university has been acquiring objects in order to better understand the world and to illustrate the lectures given there. From Delezenne’s circle, which was used in experiments to measure the flattening at the poles and the bulge at the equator caused by the Earth’s rotation in the early 19th century, to the latest prototype created in our laboratories, the university has never stopped innovating.

Whether they be research or teaching aids, technical objects, scientific models or works of art, these collections tell the story of our university, the university of the past and that of the future.