In a reconstructed village schoolroom, visitors can gain an insight into everyday school life in the 19th and 20th centuries. For example, different areas of teaching are selected from the extensive textbook collection in small special presentations. In a reconstructed classroom of a village school, visitors can also gain an insight into everyday school life over the past 200 years. Historical lessons are offered to school classes by appointment. In addition to toys that only a few children played with in the 19th and early 20th centuries, great importance was attached to "mass-produced toys" and home-made toys when setting up the collection.
Highlights
The current highlights of the collection include "floor runners" made of hand-painted sheet metal - with which the "railroad" adventure could be played out in the living room or sandpit as early as the second half of the 19th century - steam-powered ships - including those from the Nuremberg toy manufacturer Carette - steam engines and drive models from Doll, Märklin and other toy manufacturers, as well as doll's kitchen furniture from the Württemberg company Rock & Graner.
The importance attached to toys in children's education can be seen in the numerous exhibits on the subject of the "Militarization of childhood". In this section of the display collection, visitors are given a brief insight into the many ways in which children and young people were brought up in a military way in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The museum's rich collection of children's and youth literature can only be presented with a few examples.
