Goethe-Nationalmuseum

The Goethe National Museum was established on 8 August 1885 in the form of a foundation in Weimar. The occasion was the death of the last Goethe- grandson Walther von Goethe. According to the testamentary disposition were the properties and collections of the famous poet about is the Grand Ducal house and opened Goethe's house at the woman plan together with home garden as " Goethe National Museum ".

After the formation of the federal state of Thuringia, the Goethe National Museum was transferred to the ownership of the land along with a number of other buildings of Weimar from the classical period as well as the Weimar locks. In the 1920s, other buildings of Weimar were assigned to the Goethe National Museum. In 1953 these were transferred to the National Research and memorials of classical German literature ( NFG ). Since October 1991, the Goethe National Museum is part of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar ( successor institution NFG ), which administers the head office total of 22 historic homes and museums throughout the Weimar City area and beyond.

In Goethe's house at the woman plan the living rooms of him and his wife Christiane, the office and the library of the poet, the reception and art collection rooms and the home garden can be visited. Here are also research institutions, including the so-called study hall, a device from the time of Goethe, which one would call congress and conference center today and is used as such.

For Goethe National Museum is next to the house of Goethe and the " Goethe- Museum ", which fits in a 1935 extension built on the neighboring property. The core of the museum 's collection consists of Goethe's collections of art and science and its library, to about 2000 handwritten drawings. Today, the collection includes approximately 100,000 pieces of collection focus Weimar Classicism.

The museum building was located since 1999, the year of appointment Weimar's European Capital of Culture, to October 20, 2008, a permanent exhibition entitled " Repeated reflections - Classical Weimar 1759-1832 ". He was succeeded in 2009 as a one-off guest appearance at the exhibition " Masterpieces of the Bauhaus in Weimar Artist " for the 90th anniversary of the founding of the State Bauhaus in Weimar. In 2010, a temporary exhibition with the theme Augengespenst and original phenomenon. Shown 200 years Goethe's color theory. After completion of the renovation of the museum's growing there since August 2012, a new permanent exhibition under the title tides of life - deeds storm.

The Goethe National Museum is supported by its own patrons, the " Friends of the Goethe National Museum eV ".