The invention relates to a table having a tabletop and including a refrigerating machine, at least one section of the tabletop being coolable by means of the refrigerating machine via a thermal contact; an upper vacuum chamber, which can be evacuated, for thermally insulating the thermal contact from a surrounding area of the table, said chamber connecting an upper face of the refrigerating machine facing the tabletop and the section to be cooled, and which has at least one flexible upper chamber section; a lower vacuum chamber, which can be evacuated, which is connected to a lower face of the refrigerating machine facing away from the tabletop, and which has at least one flexible lower chamber section; and a rigid stiffening structure, which is connected to the refrigerating machine via the flexible upper chamber section and via the flexible lower chamber section.