Building the Multiscale Imaging Centre

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The construction site sign has already been up for some while.
© CiM - Sylwia Marschalkowski

May 2017: Now it can really get going! Building permission has been granted and first stone laying is scheduled for 7 July 2017.
© CiM - Sylwia Marschalkowski
The building site was first searched thoroughly for unexploded bombs from World War Two – luckily, none were found.
© CiM - Sylwia Marschalkowski
February 2017: A touch of snow on the new building site
© CiM - Doris Niederhoff
This is how the Multiscale Imaging Centre will look when it is finished. In an area of 5,700 m2 with state-of-the-art laboratories, approximately 260 staff members will undertake research together under one roof. The construction costs, around 63 million euros, will be covered by the federal government, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Münster University.
© Gerber Architekten

The new Multiscale Imaging Centre (MIC) is currently being built in Münster University’s Natural Science Centre in Röntgenstraße. From 2019, researchers will be bringing together here a broad spectrum of biomedical imaging processes to be used in studying the behaviour of cells in organisms. The building gives a structural basis for the long-term establishment of the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence research concept at the university.

News 13.01.2017: Building work begins on the Multiscale Imaging Centre
News 11.04.2014: Science Council approves new research building in Münster

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