News On This Day, 31 August 1940 On 31 August 1940 Maria Montessori celebrated what would be the first of six birthdays spent in India. The 1940 day was an exceptionally celebratory occasion, as she was able to spend it with her son Mario, released from a Prisoners of War Camp, just for this o...
News In Memory of Carolina Montessori AMI is very sad to announce that Carolina Montessori passed away, unexpectedly, today, in the early hours of Sunday, 7 April, 2024. Carolina was known to many of you as the most knowledgeable person in respect of the details of her great-grandmother’s life and ...
News Montessori Tulips in Bloom Last autumn, in preparation of the celebrations of Maria Montessori’s 150th birthday some of her great-grandchildren planted the special Montessori tulip named on her grave in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Now on the 6th May, the day Maria Montessori died, they ...
News Montessori Family Planting Tulips Five of Maria Montessori's great grandchildren and two of their children spent a Sunday afternoon looking after Maria Montessori's grave in Noordwijk, planting the tulips that will bloom in 2020, to mark her 150th birthday. Noordwijk is a small town close to th...
News Nienhuis Collection AMI is pleased to work with Nienhuis Montessori (a Heutink International brand) to provide a history of their long association in the production of Montessori materials.
News Filming Documentary Carolina Montessori getting ready to be interviewed in Maria Montessori’s study here in Amsterdam for an Italian documentary production by 3D Produzioni, which company was commissioned by Montessori’s birthplace Chiaravalle. The 60-minute documentary will be a...
News International Library AMI’s library, as well as the historical archives, are an excellent resource for researchers, who include students, PhD candidates, teachers, trainers in training, trainers, Montessori authors and journalists. Research questions were received from Germany, Ita...
News Tulips Blossoming in AMI's Garden We thought that you would like to take a look at the ‘Maria Montessori’ tulips that are blooming in AMI’s small garden. They were named after Maria Montessori to celebrate her 150th birthday and since then we have heard from many friends around the world that ...
News Child on the Sea of Life Brooch In the 1920s and 1930s Maria Montessori designed a brooch that her graduates could buy via the material manufacturers Philip & Tacey: a beautiful brooch in two versions: one in silver and one which added two hues of blue. One to symbolise the waves of the sea,...
News Where It All Began The Association Montessori Internationale was founded by Maria Montessori in 1929. The initiative to form AMI was taken at the first International Montessori Congress, which was held as part of the Fifth Congress of the New Education Fellowship held at Kronborg...
