by Daniel Zilio | Apr 14, 2025 | EN
In Italy, learning a trade took place for centuries in artisan workshops. The apprentice observes, helps, imitates and learns before producing a final test. Apprenticeship, therefore, was a model of learning that was only replaced by technical and professional schools...
by Daniel Zilio | Apr 14, 2025 | EN
A local treasure, the exhibit dedicated to the “Gioconda” mobile open-air school in Este. At the Museum of Education, we preserve some of the “backpack” desks made between the 1920s and 1930s for the “Gioconda” mobile open-air...
by Daniel Zilio | Apr 14, 2025 | EN
Discover what a school classroom looked like a century ago! The collection of school furniture preserved by the Museum is arranged to reproduce the typical style of Italian classrooms, which remained substantially unchanged during the long period from 1861 to the...
by Daniel Zilio | Apr 14, 2025 | EN
Discover what pedagogists thought about the education of children from 3 to 6 years old in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries! According to the German educational theorist Friedrich Wilhelm August Fröbel (1782-1842), children’s play activity should not be...
by Daniel Zilio | Apr 14, 2025 | EN
The substantial photographic collection preserves more than 1000 shots relating to school buildings and groups, families, and moments of play. Among the preserved photographs are albumen prints, ferrotypes, and traditional studio portraits. The entire collection...
by Daniel Zilio | Apr 14, 2025 | EN
Many visual and audio-visual aids are preserved at the Museum. In the schools of the past, lacking in means, images were of great help to teachers in carrying out their lessons. Wall paintings, magic lantern slides, filmstrips, super8 films, and videocassettes have...
