Friedrichshafen school museum

The School Museum in Friedrichshafen is an educational heritage museum displaying historical classrooms from different periods, furnished with original furniture, teaching materials, and school equipment from past centuries. The exhibition includes rooms from the 1850s, the turn of the 20th century, and the early 1900s, providing a complete picture of learning environments.

The museum opened in 1980 within Villa Ris and displays authentic classrooms from three important periods of German school history. These rooms document how teaching, furniture, and educational materials changed over more than a century.

The collection displays slate tablets, pencil cases, and school satchels that reveal how children learned in Germany across generations. These objects tell of teaching methods, discipline, and the daily life inside classrooms of different eras.

The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, with extended hours from April to October and shorter hours during winter months. It is easy to reach on foot and the exhibition is manageable in size, so one to two hours allows for a thorough visit.

The museum features monthly highlighted objects, including a steam engine from 1930, showing how technology entered teaching and learning. The rotating exhibitions about children's experiences across different time periods offer visitors fresh perspectives on school life each visit.