For the visitor are the the living-, society and collectionrooms, the working-room and the library of Goethe (approx. 6000 volumes) accessible. The "Christianezimmer"and the garden are visitable, too.
Living and working of Goethe are presented in 14 halls. In a multiplicity of documents, objects, pictures, platics, etc. Goethes work as poet, statesman, scientist, headmaster of theatre, etc. is represented..

In order to bind Goethe on Weimar, Carl August granted "the house in the park at the Ilm" to him in 1776.The simple way of life in his first time in Weimar are represented by the house and the historical reconstructed garden. The "stone of good luck" is placed in the garden. It`s one of the first not figurative monuments in Germany. The cube symbolizes the static, strengthening and resting. The ball lying over it symolizes the dynamic, the mobile, and because it rests, the luck.

Address: Weimar, Schillerstraße
Opening times:
01.04.-31.10. : 9a.m. -6p.m.,
01.01.-31.03.: 9a.m. -4p.m.
Tuesday closed
Guidance (after advance notification an) and
Tickets: fon: +49 (0)36 43 - 54 51 02
fon: +49 (0)36 43 - 54 51 02
fax (0 36 43) 41 98 16,
e-mail: info@swkk.de

Friedrich Schiller acquired it in 1801 and used it as dwelling for himself and his family. The visitor can view the entire house today. Down in the ground floor here are the kitchen, sevice rooms and an exhibition of the history of the house. In the first upper floor there are the living room, society room and the room of Charlotte. The small receiption room, Schillers society room and the working room, in wich Schiller deceased on 9th May 1805 are at the attic.
The Schiller museum is behind the historical "Schillerhaus". It represents live, work and the effects of Friedrich Schiller. In the ground floor there is the permanent exhibition "Friedrich Schiller on coins and medals" with over 600 exhibits.