Pedagogical museum of J. A. Comenius in Prague, Educational museum in Mala Strana, Czech Republic.
The Pedagogical Museum of J. A. Comenius is an educational institution in Mala Strana housing collections of teaching materials and school documents. The collection includes books, documents, and objects that trace how classroom education evolved in Czech lands.
The museum was founded in 1892 by Czech teachers to document the history of Czech schooling and is among the oldest museums in the country. Since 1996 it has occupied two Renaissance houses, U Zlatého slunce and U Zlatého šífu, built around 1540 and later rebuilt several times. Both appear on Huber's plan of 1769 and Langweil's model of Prague.
The space honors the legacy of John Amos Comenius, a thinker whose ideas about learning still influence schools across Europe. Visitors can see here how his thoughts shaped education over the centuries.
The museum occupies two adjoining Renaissance houses, U Zlatého slunce (Valdštejnská 20) and U Zlatého šífu (Valdštejnská 18), directly opposite the Senate's Wallenstein Palace. The permanent exhibition is divided into twelve successive sections, so allow time to follow them in order; the school cabinet and the interactive Comenius programme sit within the display.
The museum's archive includes the Slavín section, documents on Czech pedagogical figures from the first half of the 19th century to the present. It also holds the archive of Přemysl Pitter and Olga Fierzová, humanists who after the war rescued abandoned Czech, German and Jewish children.
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