Museum and workshop for raising children

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Museum and learning workshop for raising children ( Kita-Museum for short ) is a collection of exhibits that was founded in 1997 by the pedagogue Heidemarie Waninger in Potsdam . It shows the objects that accompanied child rearing in both German states . At the same time, Heidemarie Waninger founded the operator association Pädal (= current education). Due to steady rent increases, an unfavorable location or insufficient visitor interest, the facility had to move several times to its new location in Uelzen from 2019.

history

Heidemarie Waninger began collecting contemporary documents from everyday life in the GDR kindergartens and crèches in Oranienburg in 1996. Their goal was to create a complete documentation of the GDR - child rearing . At the same time, it saved toys, visual aids and furnishings from destruction, since as a result of German reunification and the associated closure of the daycare centers that had been financed by the state until then, a large number of children's combinations had to be closed. The then youth welfare office head of the city of Potsdam, Jann Jakobs , was able to find empty rooms for the collection in a daycare center on Wall am Kietz. The rooms in the city center were opened in 1997 as the first German daycare museum . In 2000 the museum rooms in the center of Potsdam were no longer available, the founder and her museum director Brigitte Winkler found alternative accommodation in the Potsdamer district Groß Glienicke (Seeburger Chaussee 2), twelve kilometers from the city center. However, the rooms belonged to the city of Potsdam, which soon demanded a rent increase of more than three times from the operators due to high operating costs, which they could not afford.

In June 2007 a replacement was found for the museum in the town of Nennhausen : two floors of a former polytechnic high school were moved into. Here the operating association developed the concept of actively engaging in raising children and offering training in the form of a learning workshop .

In 2013, Arbeiterwohlfahrt offered the use of the former residential area clubhouse 'Theodor Fontane' , a Wilhelminian style villa at Falkenseer Mainstrasse 11, at very favorable conditions. However, there was less space available, so the operating association gave away some materials to interested parties. After the museum moved out, the former classrooms in Nennhausen were rebuilt with the help of 245,000  euros and re-incorporated into the school complex. The primary school is now called Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué .

Falkensee the learning workshop came from the point of children educators * inside , childminders and childcare staff from the state of Brandenburg and from Berlin to train. Interested school classes and many private individuals also visited the museum. The visit was often combined with the exchange of personal memories or the handover of objects. A total of around 1,800 people visited the facility in 2017. A real further development of the collection did not succeed in Falkensee and the number of visitors stagnated, even though the Brandenburg Ministry for Education, Youth and Sport had recognized and promoted the facility as a supra-regional educational center . In summer 2018, the operators are giving up the premises in Falkensee. As a pensioner, the founder found a new home in Lüneburg and took care of restarting her museum there. She found contact with an educationally oriented association (with PädIN , a freelance youth welfare organization for individually designed help offers for children, young people and parents) as well as the commitment of the Lüneburg city administration to provide suitable rooms in the city center. At the beginning of 2019, the museum with a learning workshop should be able to reopen here.

The previous museum director Brigitte Winkler takes on a role on the AWO federal board.

description

On the homepage of the Kita Museum you can find this self-description: “In the exhibition rooms [...] there is space for memories and comparisons, for personal pedagogical assessment and for seminar work with educators and parents on a wide variety of current topics. The focus is on arrangements from crèche , kindergarten and day care center in the GDR. Aspects from raising children in the west can also be seen: impressions from Montessori and Waldorf pedagogy as well as the situation approach. An exhibition is dedicated to the topic of 30 years of children's shop movement - roots - resistance - effects . "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Homepage of the museum
  2. a b c Marlies Schnaibel: Kita-Museum leaves Falkensee . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , insert Havelland , April 10, 2018, p. 13.
  3. ^ A b Winfried Gutzeit: Potsdam loses the daycare museum. Education center unique in Germany moves from Groß Glienicke to Nennhausen on www.pnn.de , October 13, 2007; accessed on June 13, 2018.
  4. Marlies Schnaibel: learning workshop with Pittiplatsch in www.maz-online.de, June 14, 2013; accessed on June 13, 2018.
  5. Simone Weber: 245,000 euros for the Nennhausen School on www.moz.de, accessed on June 13, 2018.
  6. Brief information on the daycare museum in Potsdam at www.fair-hotels.de; accessed on June 13, 2018.

Coordinates: 52 ° 57 '55 "  N , 10 ° 33' 16.7"  E