Swiss Children's Museum

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The world of adults is reflected in the toy

The Swiss Children's Museum in Baden , Canton Aargau , focuses on childhood , the world of children and their changes through the past centuries to the present. It is based on an extensive study collection including a specialist library on 300 years of children's culture.

Museum concept

The museum, a walk-in history book, makes childhood history of the past 300 years tangible through its illustrative material. The focus is on the child from becoming a conscious being, upbringing and zeitgeist, extracurricular learning and the child as an economic factor. Objects from everyday children's life, games and toys, teaching aids from kindergarten and school, popular prints, folk art , children's furniture, children's advertising and children's books are on display . Play and experiment stations invite you to discover, experiment, play and create. During the winter months, the museum offers its visitors a program of activities. Special shows deal with different areas of children's culture. The museum, a house of generations, is a meeting place for young and old from different cultures. It promotes dialogue and the transfer of values ​​and is at the service of children, adults, schools and universities.

history

A wood turner from the Ore Mountains shows his skills in the museum workshop.

Sonja and Roger Kaysel began in 1965 with the systematic development of a childhood history study collection. In 1983 you founded the Swiss Children's Museum Association. The museum was opened in 1985 in the Haus zum Schwert in Baden . The Swiss Children's Museum Foundation was established in 1996 to ensure the continued existence of the institution. Sonja and Roger Kaysel received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern in 1997. A private donation for the purchase of one's own domicile enabled the museum to reopen in 2002 in a founder's villa from 1896 at Ländliweg 7 in Baden. Today the museum is managed by Daniel and Marcel Kaysel. The study collection was transferred to them in 2015.

Location

The Swiss Children's Museum has been located in a listed founder's villa at Ländliweg 7 in Baden since 2002 .

The villa was built in 1896/97 by the architects Dorer and Füchslin from Baden in the style of an Italian country house. The client was Fritz Funk, limited partner and commercial manager at Brown Boveri & Cie. (BBC) in Baden. The villa is located south of Baden's old town in the neighborhood of Villa Boveri , on the edge of a slope that slopes down towards the Limmat .

Web links

Commons : Swiss Children's Museum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 10.8 "  N , 8 ° 18 ′ 28"  E ; CH1903:  665,524  /  258018