School class and cabinet of a burgher school from the time of Austria-Hungary
The scenario of the exhibition, which is located in two rooms on the 1st floor of the east wing of the chateau, was prepared in 1987 under the original name Old School.
The first room consists of an installed science school cabinet from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The glass cabinets contain teaching aids from various fields: globes and telluriums intended for geography, stuffing, alcohol preparations, models of human body parts and examples of minerals for natural history, aids for physics, such as steam engine models, etc. The walls are embossed. plastic images of birds, produced in the Brno studio of J. Schroll, a plastic map of Olomouc and a teaching aid for history with typologically arranged archaeological finds, which was compiled for schools by Jan Havelka, a professor at the Slavonic Grammar School in Olomouc. The cabinet also has a teacher's desk and a stand for hanging school wall boards with several pictures of animals. The atmosphere of the time is complemented by a cast iron stove, telephone and telegraph device.
From the cabinet you can see the school classroom with original school furniture and school supplies, common in teaching until 1914. In front there is a step with a department and a blackboard on a stand. The center of the room consists of long benches (so-called lockers), on which are placed period notebooks, slate writing boards, drawings and writing utensils. On the front wall hangs a crucifix, a portrait of Emperor Francis Joseph I and Comenius the ant ten. The other walls are decorated with geographical maps of Austria-Hungary, Moravia and Silesia, as well as period school pictures by Karel Slavoj Amerling. There is also a harmonium in the room, on which the Přerov composer and music teacher Josef Čapka Drahlovský played in the past, and illustrative aids for teaching geography (tellurium) and physics (Mach's wave machine, vacuum cleaner). On the sides of the entrance to the classroom there is a school order from the beginning of the 20th century and on the opposite side a school bell.