The Universeum Working Group on Recent Heritage of Science has released selection criteria for recent material heritage of science at universities.The document aims at providing a roadmap for making decisions concerning which objects to keep and which objects to discard, as the material heritage of recent science at universities and other research and teaching institutions is very large and only a small amount of the instruments, objects, and other material from recent scientific activity can be preserved. The paper addresses specifically selection criteria for recent science, which is defined as the period after WWII until the present, and is based on discussions in the UNIVERSEUM Working Group on Recent Heritage of Science (Trondheim 2012, Valencia 2013, and online).