LIN at Tomorrow Labs: Hands-on brain research at the Science Harbour

Take a journey through the brain, test your own memory and discover why our senses sometimes play tricks on us: at the Tomorrow Labs, the LIN demonstrates just how fascinating current neurobiological research is. On 6 June 2026 from 4 pm to 10 pm, Magdeburg’s Science Harbour will be transformed into an open festival site dedicated to science, innovation and questions about the future. Entry is free, and everyone is welcome to join in!

At the Health:Lab on the STIMULATE research campus, visitors can try out for themselves how movement, perception and memory interact. Virtual mazes demonstrate how our brain navigates new environments. Optical and cognitive illusions allow us to experience just how actively our brain constructs the world. Children and adults can test their memory against each other in a short computer game, design their own synapses or travel through the brain in virtual reality.

A lecture links research with medical applications: Max-Philipp Stenner from LIN and Lars Büntjen from Magdeburg University Hospital explain how brain pacemakers help combat tremors and what brain rhythms have to do with learning. In this way, we demonstrate how modern neurobiology extends from the laboratory into everyday life: it helps us understand how we learn, remember, move and perceive our environment. At Tomorrow Labs, research from Magdeburg becomes tangible and understandable, showing why a better understanding of the brain is important for education, health and technology.

Tomorrow Labs brings together the state capital Magdeburg and the city’s scientific institutions. In the four themed worlds – Earth:Lab, Health:Lab, Technology:Lab and Society:Lab – universities, research institutions and companies bring future-oriented topics to life for our visitors.