School Museum - Workshop for School History Leipzig
 Entrance to the Leipzig School Museum |
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| place | Leipzig 
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School museum
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| opening | 1984 |
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City of Leipzig
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| management |
Thomas Töpfer
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-852915 |
The School Museum - Workshop for School History Leipzig (also Leipzig School Museum ) is an institution of the City of Leipzig . As a museum, it collects and documents material evidence on Leipzig's school and educational history from 1212 to the present day. According to his mission statement, it sees itself as a museum and as an active place of learning and work.
Location
The museum is located in downtown Leipzig at the address Leipzig, Goerdelerring 20 in a building of the former Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR . This so-called hall building was added in 1957 to the main building built between 1911 and 1913 for the Alte Leipziger Feuerversicherung and was the first new building for the State Security in Leipzig. The building is a listed building .
The museum's permanent exhibitions are located on the second and third floors of the house. The accommodation in a building of the Ministry for State Security is of great importance for the self-image of the museum, which is particularly dedicated to the role of school and education in the dictatorships of the 20th century and sees itself as a place of lively democratic education. Together with the “Extremism and Violence Prevention Unit”, the school museum forms the “Center for Democratic Education” in the Office for Youth, Family and Education of the City of Leipzig.
history
As early as 1909, an association formed for this purpose, chaired by Max Brahn , a student of Wilhelm Wundt , sought to found a school museum in Leipzig. It was in a classroom of a Leipzig elementary school, but disappeared again during the First World War . Brahn went to Berlin in 1920 , and Leipzig remained without a school museum for more than 60 years.
In 1984, as in many other parts of the GDR, a school museum was founded in Leipzig. It was set up in a classroom of what was then the Georg Schwarz School (now the 57th Middle School) in the Lindenau district . With the move to the school at Floßplatz in 1994 , the spatial conditions improved. The necessary reorientation of the collection concept and the entire work of the facility began, together with a staff renewal, only in 1998. In 2000, the move and the establishment of the current location took place. From 2000 to 2015 Elke Urban was the director of the museum. In 2015 Thomas Töpfer took over the management of the house. As a cooperation institution of the city, the university and the University of Technology, Economy and Culture Leipzig , the work of the museum is accompanied by a scientific advisory board. The Friends of the School Museum - Workshop for School History Leipzig e. V.
museum
Teaching aids
Pioneer and FDJ clothing
Exhibitions
The permanent exhibition is divided into two sections, one on each floor. Instead of a chronological presentation, the focus is on exemplary questions about the 800-year history of institutions and their protagonists, as well as the breaks and peculiarities of Leipzig's educational history.
The first part of the permanent exhibition for the period from 1212 to 1933 focuses on schools in the imperial era 1871–1918 and special types of school, such as the Leipzig Forest School or the Jewish Carlebach School . View depots contain, among other things, more than 1500 school murals, as well as teaching materials for physics, chemistry and biology classes and a small planetarium of the ZKP 1 type. There is also a replica cell .
The second section, covering the period 1933–1989, is devoted to the position of the school during the Nazi era and in the GDR. The ideological orientation and militarization of education are presented in detail. Examples of resistance from students and teachers are documented and analyzed. Objects from everyday school life in the GDR in the GDR School Schaudepot remind the older visitors of their school days.
The museum has developed 26 special exhibitions since 2000, some of which have also been shown in other institutions, and also offers special traveling exhibitions for schools.
Library and collections
The museum's library is a reference library and contains more than 25,000 titles, including school books, curricula, specialist journals and literature on school history and pedagogy from the 18th century. More than 250 international primers and a large collection of school programs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are special.
The collections, also with over 25,000 objects, are divided into documents, utensils and teaching materials as well as photos and films. The documents include, among other things, curricula, certificates, certificates, theses, teacher and student directories, lesson preparation, examination documents, student work, chronicles, diaries and calendars. The second group includes school furniture, school murals, maps, preparations and technical models, as well as media such as records and tapes as well as utensils used by students and teachers for writing, arithmetic and drawing, as well as clothing, trophies and awards. The film inventory includes educational, children's and home films in 16 mm and 8 mm format, but also VHS video cassettes and DVDs from recent production. The photo collection includes photos of schools, students and teachers as well as image documents in the context of Leipzig's educational history, but also of sporting events, school trips, holiday camps and working groups.
An object database on the institution's website with 2500 entries enables research in parts of the museum collections.
Classroom around 1900
GDR classroom around 1970
deals
In historically furnished classrooms, pupils and adults can take part in groups both in a reconstructed lesson at the elementary school around 1900 and in one of the GDR's polytechnic high school .
In workshops, which usually last two hours, groups of visitors, differentiated according to school type and grade level, can deal in depth with special topics of the museum. The museum also offers support with the implementation of projects such as school anniversaries or commemorative publications, the production of films or the preparation of class reunions.
See also
Web links
- Website School Museum Leipzig. Retrieved August 18, 2015 .
- Offers from the school museum. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
- School Museum - Workshop for School History Leipzig. In: Look! The Leipzig museum portal. Retrieved August 18, 2015 .
- School in the GDR. In: YouTube. Retrieved August 18, 2015 .
- Elke Urban, Head of the Leipzig School Museum - Interview in BR. Archived from the original on August 4, 2015 ; accessed on September 24, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Center for Democratic Education - Office for Youth, Family and Education of the City of Leipzig. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Website of the School Museum Association - Workshop for School History Leipzig e. V. Retrieved August 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Documentation for a special exhibition on the content of international primers: Elke Urban and Sven Haaker: The family in the school book: primers from all over the world . Greiner, Remshalden 2008, ISBN 978-3-86705-018-0 .
- ↑ Object database of the museum ( Memento from October 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )