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Museum closed on Good Friday and Sundays of Easter |
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Last update
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02/04/07
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1. - This exhibition is based on the following principles
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- J.F. Oberlin addresses us though his writings, in the items he
himself produced, and by a variety of hand-on activities derived
from his own educational research.
- At the Oberlin Museum, the point is not to be the passive observer
of a picture or a drawing but to perceive and experiment, thus
making us aware oft he divine complexity of the world.
- The exhibition aims to draw the visitor’s attention to
the wide scope of Oberlin’s purpose and provide insight into
its very core and contradictions.
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| 2. - Jean-Frédéric
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The collections kept at the Oberlin Museum, at Waldersbach,
testify to the 59 years of ministry during which Pastor Oberlin
(1740-1826) endeavoured to set up a new society in a remote valley
of the Vosges region. His goal was the education of man in his
own environment and at ail levels intellectual, manual and artistic
as well as economic and spiritual.
Jean-Frédéric Oberlin’s pedagogical and educational
work was the foundation of his nursery schools and elementary
schools. In 1769 he founded the first « knitting-rooms» with
the guidance of «the leaders of tender childhood»,
the children would open their minds at their own pace, and develop
their bodies through physical exercise while participating in
activities such as knitting, drawing, creating herbariums in
a child-appropriate way.
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Chronological events
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31 août 1740 :
Jean - Frédéric Oberlin's birth
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1er juin 1826 : Death
of JF Oberlin.
5 juin : His burial |
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Waldersbach
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