|About the museum:
The Croatian Schools Museum is the only specialised museum in the area of school education in Croatia. It had its grand opening on August 19, 1901, in the building of the Croatian Teacher’s House, built in 1889. It was founded by the Croatian Teaching and Literary Union, which from its foundation in 1871, began to assemble materials to create individual collections. Also part of the museum is the Davorin Trestenjak Educational Library, 1877, with holdings today of about 40,000 volumes. On World Teacher’s Day, October 5, 2000, the museum opened its permanent display, in which Croatian school education was presented within the units called: the appearance of a school classroom at the end of the 19th century; teaching aids – first reading, writing and languages, maths, religious instruction, natural history, physics and chemistry, history and geography; elementary, secondary and tertiary education; the teaching profession; the development of educational thinking in Croatia; artistic creativity; girls’ and boys’ handicrafts; the Paris Room (work of the pupils of the Trades School according to the drawings of Herman Bollé for the Expo in Paris in 1900); the study of the writer Mato Lovrak. To accompany the permanent display, the museum puts occasional thematic exhibitions, paying particular attention to museum teaching and through many activities it acquaints particularly children and the young with this valuable part of the Croatian heritage.