Friedrich Froebel Museum
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| place | Johannisgasse 4, Bad Blankenburg |
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Education and meeting place: Research into the history of the kindergarten as well as the life and work of Friedrich Froebel
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| opening | 1910 |
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Heidecksburg State Museums
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Margitta Rockstein
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-866617 |
Friedrich-Fröbel-Museum has been housed in Bad Blankenburg since 1982 in the building in which the “founder” of the kindergarten , Friedrich Fröbel , opened his first “play and employment facility” in 1839/40, which later became the kindergarten.
history
On August 6th, 1910, a Froebel memorial room was set up in the Froebel House, which was inaugurated on August 6, 1908 in Blankenburg and which housed a kindergarten and a recreation center for kindergarten teachers. Eleonore Heerwart's collection items at the time, as well as furniture, writings and books from the estate of Froebel's widow are still the basis of the museum today. In 1945 the museum was spun off from the Fröbelhaus and housed in three rooms in the building of the Silentarium Association , Goetheweg 15, and affiliated to the educational science department of the University of Jena . The rooms were used as follows:
- Living room with furniture and pictures owned by the Froebel family
- Exhibition room with testimonies to Friedrich Froebel's life
- Playroom with toys and means of employment by Froebel
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Since 1982, on the occasion of Friedrich Froebel's 200th birthday, the Friedrich Froebel Museum has been located in the so-called house above the basement:
" The museum didactic concept of the house emphasizes on presenting Froebel's life, his educational program in the context of his personality and discussing the historical impact of Froebel education on a national and international level up to the present day "
The museum's handwritten estate includes:
- about 235 letters from Froebel, over 40 draft letters and about 370 notes
- about 1000 letters to Froebel.
The museum has a library. It comprises over 3000 volumes of national and international Froebel secondary literature. The library contains, for example, the complete volumes of the specialist journal Kindergarten :
“ The most valuable treasures include the printed manuscript on 'Human Education', the draft and the fair copy of the 'Unifying Thoughts' from 1840 ... Works on Froebel's educational theory, pedagogy and schooling are the focus of the collection concept. The extensive small literature is also committed to this topic. From Fröbel's own work are the first editions of 'Menschenerbildung' from 1826, the ' Mutter- und Koselieder ' from 1844, the six Keilhauer writings, the 'Sunday paper for like-minded people' from 1838 and 1840, the 'Wochenschrift' from 1850, the 'Zeitschrift for Friedrich Froebel's efforts' of 1851 as well as instructions for using the game gifts . "
Two further rarities of the museum that should be particularly emphasized are the executed third gift and the so-called body box .
The facility's offer includes guided tours and demonstrations (for children and adults) of Froebel's games and activities in the museum's kindergarten room. Furthermore, the museum is a research facility for scientists who work on Friedrich Froebel, his epigones and the kindergarten. Symposia, conferences and lectures were also held in this regard. The first all-German event took place in June 1990 on the occasion of the 150th birthday of the General German Kindergarten . The museum also publishes smaller leaflets (e.g. folding instructions for the Froebel Star), as well as its own publications since 1999:
- Beginnings of kindergarten. Volume 1 , 1999.
- Beginnings of kindergarten. Volume 2 , 2000.
- Are children little majesties? , 2001.
- Kindergarten as a place of education , 2002.
- The authentic Froebel , 2004.
- Froebel's legacy. “Come, let us live our children!” 2009.
- Kindergarten , 2004, 2nd edition 2013.
- Froebel's kindergarten. A future model from the past , 2015.
It is to be criticized that the museum hardly documents the time of the GDR or has removed relics from this time period.
literature
- Joachim Peege: Froebel Museum before and after. Findings from several visits to Bad Blankenburg “before and after the fall of the wall”. Mainz 1993.
- Margitta Rockstein: The Friedrich Froebel Museum Bad Blankenburg / Thuringia. In: Helmut Heiland / Karl Neumann (ed.): Friedrich Fröbel in an international perspective. Froebel research in Japan and Germany. Weinheim 1998, pp. 187-189.
- Margitta Rockstein: On the history of the Blankenburger Froebel inheritance. In: Friedrich Froebel Museum (ed.): Beginnings of the kindergarten. Bad Blankenburg 1999, pp. 109-112.
- Helmut Heiland : Froebel's legacy. Froebel Museum and Froebel's picture of the child. In: Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg Rudolstadt (Hrsg.): Froebel's legacy . Bad Blankenburg 2009, pp. 9-25.
- Margitta Rockstein / Horst Fleischer: From memorial to cosmopolitan meeting place: The Friedrich Fröbel Museum in Bad Blankenburg is 100 years old . In: Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg (Hrsg.): Froebel's legacy . Bad Blankenburg 2009, pp. 27–45.
- Margitta Rockstein: The Friedrich Froebel Museum . In: Kindergarten , Bad Blankenburg 2013, pp. 7-10.
gallery
Notice board at the entrance to the museum
Logo on admission ticket
Showcase in the Friedrich Froebel Museum
Friedrich Froebel Museum from the esplanade
Flyer Froebelstern with another logo of the museum
Museum brochure circa 1950
Web links
- Friedrich Froebel Museum Bad Blankenburg - official website
- http://www.religio.de/froebel/orte/haus.html
- http://www.heidecksburg.de/cms/pages/de/ausstellungen-museen/weiter-museen/froebel-museum-bad-blankenburg.php
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 4.8 ″ N , 11 ° 15 ′ 48.4 ″ E