As a research institution on the city's history and an extracurricular learning location with a broad educational program, the city archive offers teachers and pupils a wide range of opportunities to engage with history.
Pupils can visit the city archive
- get to know their own living environment and their past;
- learn the different ways of thinking in the past and present;
- Interpret original sources and find out where the facts in the history book actually come from;
- learn to critically evaluate historical sources;
- practicing independent research on a topic.
Teachers can visit the city archive
- Receive support in enriching lessons with local sources;
- prepare historical school projects and receive help with their planning;
- Select offers from the archive educational program (PDF in the download area).
As an extracurricular place of learning, the Stadtarchiv Aachen maintains educational partnerships with the following schools as part of the Bildungspartner-NRW program in the area of archives and schools:
- Gemeinschaftshauptschule Drimborn, Aachen
- Luise-Hensel-Realschule, Aachen
- Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium, Aachen
- Ritzefeld Grammar School, Stolberg