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Travelling to the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory
The Friedrich Miescher Laboratory (FML) is located in the north of Tübingen and shares a campus with the MPI for Biology Tübingen, the MPI for Intelligent Systems and the MPI for Biological Cybernetics. The FML is easily accessible by public transport from the city centre and there is free parking. Visitors will need to ask for a parking permit to use the parking spaces near the building. We look forward to your visit.
Take bus no. 3 (direction “Waldhäuserost/Sternwarte”) which operates every 15 minutes from the main train station in Tübingen to the bus stop "Max Planck Institute".
It takes about 15 minutes to reach the campus by bus. From the bus stop, it’s a 250-metre walk following the street downhill to the right and then left after the parking building until you reach the FML entrance.Tübingen bus timetable & maps
Intercity trains, including the high-speed ICE service, will bring you to Stuttgart main station, from where local trains take about an hour to reach Tübingen and operate approx. every half an hour. From here, the Max Planck Campus can be reached by taxi or bus (see above). The bus station and taxi rank are both directly located in front of the Tübingen train station. Train schedules
Free parking is available on campus in the parking lot or in several parking spaces directly in front of the institute.
Please ask for a parking permit with your license plate number when you register with us which needs to be displayed in a visible location in your vehicle.
The nearest airport is Stuttgart. From Stuttgart airport, take the Airportsprinter (Bus 828), which will take you to the main station in Tübingen with a journey time of about one hour. Alternatively, you can take a taxi. The taxi ride only takes 30 to 40 minutes and will cost approx. 70 €.
