Welcome at J.-F Oberlin Museum

Schedules

From April 1st still September 30th: every day from 10:00am to 7pm.
Except Tuesday.

News

Concert
[18-08-2013]
"Music and History"
Historical evocation - Quatuor of Collegium Musicum from Mulhouse
Sunday, 18. August at 5pm, Walderbach's church

Conference
[11-08-2013]
A blind man at the Enlightement, Gottlieb Conrad Pfeffel 1746-1827
Loïc Chalmel, professor
Sunday, 11th August at 5pm

04th August's Night
[04-08-2013]
Conference: "The Abolition of privileges"
by François Uberfill, historian
Sunday, 04th August at 8pm. Free admission.

Historical evocation through J.F. Oberlin and contemporary's writtings.
Sunday, 04th August at 10pm. Price: 5€

Museum's mornings
[24-07-2013]
"Ascent" of the mythic "Col de la Perheux". A refreschment and a visit of the museum will follow the ascent.
24th July, 02nd, 15th, 26th August, 01st, 06th September 2013 at 9am.
Price: 10€

Conference
[21-07-2013]
"Head of other people". Meaning and purpos of silhouette's collections.
Marie-Thérèse Fischer, historian.
Sunday, 21th July at 5pm.
Free admission.

"Les sentiers plaisir"
[15-07-2013]
A discovery of the places found to the J.F. Oberlin' history and work.
15th, 22 July, 05th, 12th, 19th August at 2pm. Meeting place at the Oberlin Museum.
Length: 3h.

Passerines and Co: on table!
[15-07-2013]
An initiation to ornithology! Realize a birdhouse to protect birds.
15th, 31th and 16th, 28th August from 2pm to 5pm.
From 8 years. Registration required.
Price: 10€ (with snack).

Enlightenment' banquet
[13-07-2013]
Try culinary practises and recipes from the XVIIIème siècle.
13th, 26th July, 09th, 23th, 11th August from 10.30 am to 4pm.
Adults. Registration required.
Price: 15 euros.

Green music
[10-07-2013]
Be an artist! Realize unusual instruments with natural elements.
10th, 22th July and 07th, 21st August from 2pm to 5pm.
From 4 years. Registration required.
Price: 10€ (with snack).

Do you know awful creatures from the vegetable garden?
[08-07-2013]
Discover vegetables awfully good and create an horrendous scarerow.
0!th, 17th, 25th July and 08 August from 2pm to 5pm.
General public. Registration required. Family pass: 20 euros.

Balm's and boams' secrets
[05-07-2013]
Realize your cosmetics.
05th, 18th, 29th July, 14th, 30th August from 2pm to 5pm.
Adults. Registration required.
Price: 15 euros

Be jeweller!
[29-06-2013]
Create your jewels with natural elements.
From 10 am to 5pm.
Adults. Registration required.
Price: 20 euros.

Make your box!
[23-06-2013]
Practise the "land art" with your family.
23th Juni, 11th, 29th, 01 August from 3pm to 5pm.
General public. Regisration required.
Family pass: 12 euros.

This exhibition is based on the following principles

• 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

Jean-Frédéric Oberlin Museurn

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.

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.

Useful links

J.-F Oberlin's herbarium

J.F. Oberlin's Fundation