Education is always at the centre of attention as it helps to build the foundations of our society. It is you, our dear teachers and educators, who play the greatest role in this by empowering every pupil through your work and by planning visits to cultural institutions.
In the 2025/26 school year, we will be running an exciting TEACHING PROGRAMME.
We have prepared some key information to help you plan and prepare your pupils for their visit to the Slovenian School Museum.
Our teaching programme offers a variety of unforgettable experiences!
GUIDED TOUR OF THE PERMANENT EXHIBITION SCHOOL RULES!
The exhibition School Rules! traces the paths of education and upbringing in Slovenia through thirteen periods, from prehistoric times to the present day. Designed as a long school blackboard containing flaps and drawers, the exhibition encourages interactive exploration.
About exhibition SCHOOL RULES.
Duration: 60 minutes
HISTORICAL LESSONS
The lessons are mini-theatrical performances, in which museum visitors take on the roles of pupils and act out a lesson from a particular historical period alongside Miss or Mister Teacher. Participants experience the lesson on stage, in an old classroom and authentic setting, wearing period clothing. About HISTRORICAL LESSONS.
Lesson for foreign visitors is in English, other lessons by appointment.
Duration: 15 min preparation and 45 min lesson
TIME PLANNING
Allow enough time for the museum visit (60-120 minutes). If your group has less time, please choose a shorter programme, as it is difficult to shorten lessons and workshops.
- Individual single-lesson programmes last 60 minutes. Groups can have a maximum of 30 pupils.
- Longer programmes (combination of 2 programmes) last 120 minutes. The group can have a maximum of 56 pupils – they are divided into two smaller groups that swap after one hour.
BOOKING AN EVENT
You can make a booking by:
- calling +386 51 238 259 or +386 1 25 13 024, or
- by email at prijava@solskimuzej.si.
Information needed: type of programme, date of visit, time of arrival, name of school, phone number and email address, age of pupils, number of pupils, additional needs and preferences (e.g. pupils with disabilities or foreign pupils).
After making your booking, you will receive a confirmation email containing basic instructions. You must confirm your booking (by email or telephone) at least one week before your scheduled visit.
Cancellation of the booking
If a group makes and confirms a booking but then fails to attend the confirmed visit without cancelling in advance, we will be forced to charge the group for the museum visit. You can pay for your visit to the museum with a purchase order or in cash.
MEALS: Due to space constraints, we are unfortunately unable to offer you a suitable space for meals in the museum. However, if you would like your children to have a snack during their visit, they can do so in the cloakroom. If this is the case, please inform us of this option when you register.
ADMISSION FEES
ARRIVAL
Please arrive at the museum as punctually as possible at the agreed time, as this will allow the programme to run smoothly. If this is not possible, please notify us of the delay by calling +386 51 238 259. During the visit, a teacher must participate and ensure discipline.
AFTER THE VISIT
Your feedback on the museum visit would be very welcome and useful in helping the curator-educator and guides to make improvements. We would especially appreciate any drawings, stories or impressions from the children.
PREPARING PUPILS FOR VISITS TO THE SLOVENIAN SCHOOL MUSEUM and HISTORICAL LESSONS
Visiting a cultural institution means that pupils learn about the environment outside school, so it is a good idea to familiarise them with the MUSEUM ETIQUETTE before the visit. Pupils should listen, ask questions and contribute, but it’s not nice to interrupt a guide or their classmates. They should also not jostle or shout. The guide will tell them which objects they can touch and when.
Following the rules is rarely fun, but it is essential for the safety and well-being of everyone in the museum. Also, behaving appropriately protects museum objects.
Preparing pupils for attending history lessons
The aim of the lessons is to combine spontaneous learning and fun, as visitors discover a particular period in the school’s history and its key (educational) features through a living history enactment. This extraordinary experience will be truly successful and unforgettable if visitors are properly prepared for it. Please prepare your pupils for the visit at school.
It is particularly important to make pupils aware that:
- A historical lesson is a museum experience of lessons from seventy, one hundred, one hundred and fifty, or two hundred years ago.
- The lessons are based on the strict educational methods of the time, such as the hazel cane and kneeling on corn. Some of these methods are used in the lessons and visitors can experience them firsthand. Pupils should not be scared by the punishments; just warn them that, during the role play, someone will most likely have to play the punished student. They should therefore try their best to play the role of an obedient student. The aim of the lesson is authenticity, so the children dress in school costumes, tailored to the fashion of the time.
- All the visitors (including the group’s companions) are pupils in the classroom and, together with the teacher, they try to recreate the atmosphere of bygone times. The success of the enactment also depends on the motivation of the companions, so we would appreciate it if you followed these instructions.
- If there is any indiscipline, disruption or disorderly behaviour, the teacher may take old-fashioned disciplinary measures (threatening with a hazel stick, making pupils kneel on corn or make them carry a wooden donkey), send a pupil out of the classroom or interrupt the lesson. The same applies to guided tours of the exhibition.
- No photography or filming is allowed during the lesson. You may take photographs at the beginning and end of the lesson.
