School Museum Dresden

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The Dresden School Museum is a school museum in the Saxon state capital.

Location

The school museum is located in the Friedrichstadt district near the city ​​center. It is located on traditional school grounds between Seminarstrasse and Wachsbleichstrasse in a former school building. The neighboring building has served as a school almost continuously since 1785 and is used by the 48th  Dresden primary school . The Dresden Mitte train station , the Dresden-Friedrichstadt hospital and the branch of the vocational training center for the hospitality industry are also within sight . Other Dresden museums in the area are the Dresden Bicycle Museum and the KraftWerk - Dresden Energy Museum .

Conception

The conception of the museum provides three main areas. On the one hand, exhibitions are intended to document the various epochs of the last 150 years of educational history in Saxony and Dresden for the public. On the other hand, it serves scientists as a research center for the history of schools . Third, it should be a communication platform for the exchange of new research ideas on the subject of education.

In order to set up the museum under the most thorough professional guidance possible, the association Schulmuseum Dresden e. V. and scientists from the Technical University of Dresden joined forces. The scientific advisory board includes professors from the Philosophical Faculty and the Faculty of Education.

Collections

The extensive collections of the school museum serve to document the school history of Dresden and consist of an extensive collection of school books , teaching aids , murals and scrolls as well as other objects related to school history. They are inaccessible to the public and are used by scientists, students of the TU Dresden and those interested in Dresden's school history for research purposes. In addition to specialist educational literature, they also include sound carriers , photographs and other media. The collections also contain historical teaching materials from various subjects, including physics , geography and biology . An archive on the history of all Dresden schools from the past and present is currently under construction.

Exhibitions

The permanent exhibition of the school museum currently comprises four classrooms , each documenting a social epoch of the 20th century and furnished in the style of the relevant period. These are rooms on the topics of the Imperial Era , Weimar Republic ( reform school ), Nazi era and GDR .

Special exhibitions are regularly shown in a specially designed room. In the past, there were exhibitions about the personalities Maria Reiche and Helmut Schön who went to school in Dresden . There were also exhibitions about the deaf school in Trachenberge , the schools in the Friedrichstadt district , about sugar cones and about pen , ink and paper .

history

Former Dresden school museums

Before 1945 Dresden had three school museums and thus most of the country. On December 4, 1904, the school museum of the Saxon Teachers' Association opened , which was located on today's Hochschulstrasse in the southern suburb . It consisted of a teaching material collection and showed many exhibitions. In October 1905, the school museum of the Dresden teachers' association was set up in the same building , with a focus on local history . On April 6, 1910, a third school museum was added , also in the southern suburb, with the school museum of the Saxon seminar teachers' association on Teplitzer Strasse, which was mainly dedicated to teacher training. All three school museums and several municipal collections were lost as a result of the Allied air raids on Dresden in February 1945 .

It was not until 1986 that the establishment of a new school museum on Tiergartenstrasse in Strehlen , which had been planned since the 1950s, took place . This fourth Dresden museum of this type was located near the zoo and therefore not far from the destroyed third school museum. It contained a classroom from 1910, but the focus was on the socialist school history after 1945. After the fall of the Wall , it was found out of date and closed on July 1, 1992 after only six years of existence.

Today's school museum

In 1785 the later 48th elementary school was opened in a rear building of today's school museum building. This rear building still houses the 48th elementary school, making it Dresden's oldest school building still in use. From 1787 to 1865, when it was relocated to a new building built by Carl Adolph Canzler on Waltherstrasse, it housed the first Saxon teachers' seminar , in which Christian Traugott Otto , Carl Heinrich Nicolai and Gustav Friedrich Dinter, among others , worked. In the middle of the 19th century the school building became too small, which is why a new gymnasium was built on Seminarstrasse in 1871 and the front building in 1886. The latter initially used the 48th elementary school as a boys' house and until 2002 the 48th elementary school. Today the school museum is located there. Also in 1871, a third school building was built at the southern end of the school premises with the historicist 17th elementary school by Theodor Friedrich , which now houses a vocational school.

Five years after the closure of the fourth Dresden School Museum, the Schulmuseum Dresden eV association was founded in 1997 . V. , who had set itself the goal of building a new school museum in order to tie in with the Dresden tradition in this area. The flooding of the basement and ground floor of the museum building by the Weißeritz in the course of the Elbe flood in 2002 prevented the opening planned for the end of 2003. Significant progress was not made until 2005. The school museum opened on March 24, 2006.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 25 ″  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 16 ″  E