Schulmuseum Leipzig, Educational history museum in Leipzig, Germany.
Schulmuseum Leipzig is a museum in Leipzig dedicated to the history of schooling in Germany. It displays original classroom furniture, schoolbooks, writing boards, and teaching objects spanning from the German Empire through the East German period.
The museum was founded in 1984 and has been collecting school equipment covering more than a century of German history. Its holdings trace how teaching changed from the German Empire through the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, and East Germany.
The museum shows what a school day looked like across different eras, from the German Empire to East Germany. Walking through the rooms, visitors see original classroom setups with blackboards, benches, and teaching materials from each period.
The museum is at Goerdelerring 20 in Leipzig's city centre, in the 1957 hall building added to the former Alte Leipziger Feuerversicherung main block of 1911–1913; the building is a listed monument. The permanent exhibitions occupy the second and third floors. The building is not wheelchair accessible.
The museum's library holds over 250 international primers, and its collection includes a small ZKP 1 planetarium and a reconstructed school detention cell. A database on the museum's website lets visitors search 2,500 entries from the collections.
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