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The museum was opened largely due to teachers' increasing awareness of their profession and national background by the initiative of Jakob Dimnik. On the 50th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's reign, 2 August 1898, the Slovene Teachers' Association held its annual general meeting at which the Slovene School Museum was established. It changed its location several times and was dissolved in 1912 due to irregular funding.
In 1938 it was re-established as a Museum of Slovene Education in order to collect materials on the history of primary and secondary schools operating within Slovene territory. This basic concept was revised in 1951, dividing the museum into three separate units, the collection of exhibits, library, and archives and documentation. At that time the museum also began to undertake research into those institutions dealing with education. In 1960 the museum was renamed in the Documentation Centre for the History of Schooling. At the same time, the documentation unit was separated from the archives.
The museum library manages a library collection of more than 60,000 units, with some precious antiquarian educational books from the 18th and 19th centuries, and even a few incunabula, such as Rudimenta grammatices. The archives and documentation department manages a collection of old documents, photographs, slides, audio and video material.
Especially interesting among the museum's exhibits and materials are the collections of ‘black and golden books’, including notebooks, certificates, teaching aids, annual school reports, stereoscopic pictures, photographs of school buildings and classrooms, school equipment (desks, chairs, blackboards) and stationery.
The museum houses a permanent exhibition on the Education in Slovenia over the Centuries until 1991. Literature, models, maps, tables and different teaching items are on display, as well as a slide show presenting different school buildings, video projection of school motives and a live presentation of a school lesson from the times of our grandparents.
Several thematic exhibitions on school and history of education are prepared every year, i.e. Protestant Education in Slovene Territory, School Radio through the Time, School Fashion on Photos, Schooling in the Illyrian Provinces, and What shall I dress for School? on the past clothing habits and regulations.
Since 1992 the Slovene School Museum publishes School Chronicle [Šolska kronika], the only Slovene periodical dealing with the history and traditions of Slovene teachers, teacher associations and the Slovene school system (in Slovene and English). The temporary exhibitions are accompanied by rich and informative catalogues.
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