Bergisch Gladbach School Museum - Cüppers Collection
The Bergisch Gladbach School Museum - Cüppers Collection, established by the city of Bergisch Gladbach in 1990, documents school history using the example of a rural elementary school .
Locations
The building of the Catholic elementary school built in 1871 in the Bergisch Gladbach district of Katterbach serves as the domicile for the school museum . The former classroom on the ground floor is largely equipped with school furniture from around 1900. The former teacher's apartment belonging to the school building shows a permanent exhibition on the history of schools in the Bergisches Land from the establishment of the Reich in 1871 to the dissolution of the single-class elementary schools in 1968. The upper floor classroom, which was expanded in 1893, is used for special exhibitions.
In the Bergisches Museum for Mining, Crafts and Trades , the classroom there is available as an annex for lessons.
collection
The foundation of the museum is made up of objects relating to the history of the school, which the former school board member in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis Carl Cüppers had been collecting since the late 1960s. In the course of time, an extensive school history collection was created, which now includes several thousand exhibits, archive materials, photographs and school books. A special focus is on around 10,000 school murals and a collection of handicraft lessons that is unique within Germany's school museums, including 600 samplers.
tour
The tour begins in the ticket office - there is also a small museum shop here - and leads from there through six rooms. These are dedicated to the topics - history of schools in Bergisch Gladbach - education of girls in school around 1900 - "Mr. Teacher" and "Miss Teacher" - The wide world in the classroom - Teaching, learning and working materials - Primers from 1868 to 1996. Room arrangements, objects, images and archive documents are supplemented by text information on the walls.
deals
For the founder of the museum, Carl Cüppers, mediation was important in addition to collecting. Particularly close to his heart was the “teaching like in imperial times” that he introduced. It is now regularly organized by seven volunteer members of the school museum working group. You can find out more about the elementary school in earlier times on a tour of the permanent exhibition. Annual special exhibitions on special topics from school history complete the offer.
Working group and support association
The working group established by Cüppers in 1982 is responsible for running the museum. Behind the scenes, 17 members are primarily responsible for recording the collections, looking after the depot, archive and library, and lending. He publishes the series “Schul-Hefte” for the special exhibitions . In order to provide the museum with even more ideal, personal and financial support, the “Friends of the Bergisch Gladbach School Museum” was founded in 2008 and publishes the newsletter “The Blue Letter”. Important projects are currently the transfer of the data to a central database and the expansion of the museum to include a lounge for groups of visitors.
See also
literature
- Peter Joerißen: The School Museum - A Museum Guide , Bergisch Gladbach 2002
- Heidi Lerche-Renn: With a needle, thread, thimble - history of handicraft lessons in the context of educating girls , Schul-Heft 1, Bergisch Gladbach 1987
- Carl Cüppers and Bernhard Weisgerber: Primers, Writing and School - How Children Learned to Read and Write , Schul-Heft 2, Bergisch Gladbach 1989
- Hans J. Andersen and others: Once upon a time ... - Fable and fairy tale pictures for school , Schul-Heft 3, Bergisch Gladbach 1995
- Hans J. Andersen, sport is great! - An overview of the history of physical education in German schools , Schul-Heft 4, Bergisch Gladbach 1995
- Horst Schiffler, Scenes from School - A selection from the graphic collection of the Bergisch Gladbach School Museum (Cüppers Collection) , Schul-Heft 5, Bergisch Gladbach 2002
- Magdalene Trier: No Puppet Play - Silk Construction in School , Schul-Heft 6, Bergisch Gladbach 2008
- Peter Joerißen: "That's what I want, that's why I'm saving!" - History of school saving , school booklet 7, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 3-9810401-6-3
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 32.1 ″ N , 7 ° 5 ′ 0.5 ″ E