Congress 1929, New Education Fellowship Collection

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 Castle, Denmark. Over eighteen hundred delegates attended the New Education Fellowship Congress where Maria Montessori gave an introductory course on the Montessori method. The event was attended by some of the early luminaries of the Montessori movement including Claude A. Claremont, Lili Roubiczek, Caroline Tromp and Rosalie (Rosy) Joosten-Chotzen.