Schulmuseum – Werkstatt für Schulgeschichte Leipzig

Over het museum

The idea of a Leipzig school museum goes back to 1909: an association around the educator Max Brahn explicitly wanted to create a living museum, but the First World War ended the beginnings in an elementary school classroom. Brahn, later the target of antisemitic hostility, was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.

The museum was re-founded in 1984, at first in a classroom in Lindenau, from 1994 in a school at Floßplatz. Its orientation at the time was strongly ideological. Only after 1998 did the city of Leipzig initiate a reorientation in content and personnel. Since 2000, the museum has been located at Goerdelerring in a listed hall annex of 1957, the first Stasi (State Security) building in Leipzig. It is run by the city in cooperation with Leipzig University and the HTWK and sees itself as a museum and learning workshop at the same time.

The permanent exhibitions span about 800 years: from the Ratsfreischule, the first municipal elementary school, through a classroom around 1900, the forest school, and the Jewish Carlebach School to school under National Socialism, the youth resistance of the Leipzig Meuten, everyday school life in East Germany, and the upheavals after 1989/90. Visible storage areas with school wall charts and objects from East German schools, a physics and chemistry cabinet of curiosities, a natural history teaching-materials room, and a small planetarium from 1957 complete the tour. The museum is known for its reenacted lessons from the imperial era and East Germany.

Hoogtepunten

• Historic classrooms: elementary school around 1900 and polytechnic secondary school 1985
• Reenacted lessons from the imperial era and East Germany
• Exhibition on the Leipzig Meuten, youth resistance 1933–1945
• Visible storage with over 1,500 school wall charts
• Small planetarium ZKP 1 from 1957
• Free audio guides with audio description

Vaste collectie

• Dauerausstellungen 1212–1933 – Leipzig school history from the Ratsfreischule through the classroom around 1900, forest school, and Carlebach School to the cabinet of curiosities, teaching-materials room, and planetarium.
• Dauerausstellungen 1933–1989/90 – School under two dictatorships: Nazi education, the Leipzig Meuten, state youth in uniform, resistance in school, and an East German classroom from 1985.
• Umbrüche – Schule in Sachsen seit 1989/90 – Shows, using Leipzig as an example, how schools changed after the Peaceful Revolution – from the perspective of students, teachers, and parents.

Opgericht

1984

Beheerder

Stadt Leipzig

Directie

Dr. Jörn-Michael Goll

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

De toegang is gratis.

Free admission.

Toegankelijkheid

• Rolstoeltoegankelijk: niet aanwezig
• Lift: niet aanwezig
• Aangepast toilet: geen informatie
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats: geen informatie
• Hulphonden welkom: geen informatie
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
• Audiodescriptie

The office building of 1957 is not wheelchair-accessible; an elevator is planned. The free audio guides include audio descriptions at some stations, and Braille signs help with operation.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Doe- en voelstations
• Kinderfeestjes

Families and private groups can experience a school lesson as in 1900 with slate and slate pencil. In the cabinet of curiosities, hands-on experiments are on offer, and in the teaching-materials room, touch boxes. An audio guide for children is planned.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

Service & horeca

• Wifi

Free Wi-Fi. Library on school and education history.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

• Ruimtes te huur
• Privéfeesten

For children's birthday parties, family gatherings, and class reunions; modules such as a historical school lesson, a coffee table (bring your own cake), and a creative program can be booked, also outside opening hours and on weekends.

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