Hamburg School Museum

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The museum
Sculpture in front of the museum building
Sign in front of the museum building

The Hamburg School Museum is a Hamburg museum of the authority for schools and vocational training, which has been located in the former secondary school of the evangelical reformed community from 1886 and is located in Seilerstraße in St. Pauli .

Photo archive

The photo archive of the museum comes from the photo collection of the former educational science seminar of the University of Hamburg . It was supplemented by reproductions from other archives ( state media center , history workshops , etc.), the photo collection of the Lichtwarkschule and photo bequests from individual teachers and students.

The collection is categorized according to

  • Epochs:
Empire (1890–1918), Weimar Republic (1918–1932), National Socialism (1933–1945), post-war period (from 1945)
  • Subjects:
Lessons, people, school buildings, schools and neighborhoods, student work and history of education .

Library

The library is available for inspection. It is divided into three areas:

Hamburg school history

On the history of private schools , on the Jewish school system, on the history of elementary schools and high schools , on reform pedagogy , on experimental schools and others.

Text and learning books

Among the well over 10,000 copies are books on all subjects from the various epochs. Particularly noteworthy are an extensive collection of primers and a collection of realities books.

Chronicles of the Hamburg schools

From the founding of the Johanneum in 1529 to the current school programs of all schools in Hamburg, from elementary schools to comprehensive schools and grammar schools to special schools and vocational schools .

This also includes numerous smaller village schools whose villages were incorporated within the framework of the Greater Hamburg Act and which had previously developed independently in Holstein or Lüneburg .

Exhibits

The museum's collection includes:

Wall maps, murals, photographs of classes, colleges, school buildings , school trips , school home visits and teaching situations , certificates , certificates , exercise books , autograph books , textbooks , school furniture, school uniforms , equipment for physics , chemistry and biology classes , mathematical auxiliary equipment, biological exhibits such Stopftiere and animals in alcohol-filled glasses, slates , pens and other writing implements .

Exhibitions and events

The museum offers three exhibitions (as of June 2006):

  • School under the swastika and a new beginning after 1945
  • "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful" (poetry albums from 90 years)
  • Fruits of Reform Education - Images of a New School

The following events are offered for school classes and groups:

  • School and Society in the Empire
  • The historical drawing lesson according to the "Stuhlmann Method"
  • A childhood in the Third Reich

Web links

Commons : Hamburger Schulmuseum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 2 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 48"  E