Feel old walls and the breeze of earlier centuries on your skin – in the Ritterhaus Bubikon, the past comes to life. The guided tours for primary and secondary school pupils offer school classes a welcome change from their normal history lessons.
What did it mean to be rich in the Middle Ages? When is a person considered poor today? We explore these questions using the three-tiered society, historical artefacts and modern objects.
In keeping with the theme of the special exhibition, we have developed school class programmes based on Curriculum 21. The workshops “Make your own money” and “Play a game” are available for primary 1 to 5. From Year 6 and above, the guided tour “Show me your treasure and I’ll tell you who you are” is recommended.
There is also the independent tour “Speak and act with me” for primary 3 to 6. Pupils can make phone calls to three historical figures from the nobility, clergy and peasantry using the “PastPhone” and receive answers to their questions.
In the historic surroundings of the Ritterhaus, children and young people can actively experience history. This gives them a completely different approach to the past. What they learn here sticks in their minds and is an exciting addition to history lessons in the classroom. The two guided tours are designed for both primary and secondary school classes.
Pupils learn why the crusaders went to the Near East and why the city of Jerusalem was so important. They learn what role the Knights of St John played in the Crusades and what they have to do with the Knights’ House of Bubikon.
The Reformation is one of the great social upheavals that swept Europe around 1500. But what was the reformers’ main criticism of the conditions of the time? How did the various areas of people’s lives change as a result of the Reformation and why does the movement also play a major role in the history of Ritterhaus Bubikon?
Touching allowed! The guided tours give the pupils the opportunity to look at historical objects and documents up close and to hold them in their hands. In the subsequent workshop, they will deepen the topic in a creative and playful way and thus discover new approaches to the history of the Ritterhaus Bubikon.
