The exhibition ‘The school, light of freedom’, dedicated to the reform of education in the Second Republic and which can be seen in 17 local museums, will stop this March in Calella, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Sabadell and Tona.
“The school, light of freedom!” It is organized by the Cultural Heritage Office of the Barcelona Provincial Council with the collaboration of the Cerdanyola History Museum and the Barcelona Provincial Council’s Democratic Memory Program.
The exhibition reviews the deployment of the ambitious education plan of the Republic, considered one of the most progressive and innovative of the time, which had as its objective the creation of a public, unified, secular, compulsory, mixed school based on the values ??of the Solidarity.
Each museum participating in the project presents its own unique space that can be visited in person and that is complemented by a virtual version of the exhibition that brings together all the documentation collected.
In Calella, from March 3 to April 23, the Calella Municipal Museum–Calella Municipal Historical Archive focuses on the change in mentality represented by the educational reform proposed by the Second Republic.
In Sabadell, from March 8 to April 30, the History Museum focuses on the old Can Rull Forest Mixed Unitary School, a work of the Second Republic council that testifies to the interest in promoting education and culture.
In L’Hospitalet, from March 14 to November 5, the L’Harmonia space focuses the exhibition on the new way of learning and teaching, recalling the construction of new schools and the examples of pedagogical renewal of the Unitary School and their teachers.
In Tona, from March 25 to April 30, the Camp de les Lloses Interpretation and Site Center highlights the summer camps as an example of the new resources of the educational reform.
