Weimar Things to Do

Opposite of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library

Check out http://www.ginkgo-garden.de/poem.htm#Englisch for Goethe´s poem about Ginkgo biloba.

The poem is available on this site in 9 different languages:
German
English
Nederlands
French
Italian
Spanish
Portuguese
Latin
Russian
Japanese

Romantic poem....

Also check out the Ginkgo Museum at the Market Place in Windischenstr. 1 - D- 99423 Weimar (http://www.planet-weimar.de/ginkgo/index.html)

The Duchess Anna Amalia Library houses a major collection of German literature and historical documents. The library contains almost 1 million books, 2000 medieval and early modern manuscripts, 600 ancestral registers 10 000 maps and 4000 musical scripts.

The treasure of the library is its famous Rococco hall where you can retrace Goethes footsteps.

Don´t miss it. Would be a pity.

Please note that for reasons of conservation, the number of visitors is limited to 80 visitors per day. You need to buy your tickets two days in advance best and you get tickets with given time.

For individual visitors:
Tuesday to Sunday 10- 15

For groups:
Tuesday – Sunday 15 / 15.30

Closed on Mondays

Information and reservation:
Weimar Classic Foundation
Frauentorstraße
99423 Weimar

phone: +49 (0) 3643 - 545 102/ -103

Don´t miss this beautiful situated summerhouse of Goethe.

It is located in Ilmpark and you can see Goethes travel bed there which was very modern in his times.

Bought for Goethe by the Duke, the poet lived here until moving to the house on Frauenplan. A place of refuge for Goethe.

Opening hours

April-September

Mon-Sun: 10am-6pm

October-March

Mon-Sun: 10am-6pm

Here you can visit an exhibition and Goethes residential house.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived in this Baroque house for almost fifty years.

In June 1782 Goethe moved into this house at Frauenplan because his summerhouse situated in Ilmpark (check summerhouse tip) had become to small for his collections.

One of the treasures is Goethes original carriage in the remise.

Don´t leave Weimar without seeing the National Goethe Museum.

If you haven´t seen it, you haven´t been to Weimar

Opening hours:

April-September

Tue-Sun: 9am-6pm
Sat: 9am-6pm

October-March

Tue-Sun: 9am-4pm

Closed Monday

Please note that for reasons of conservation, the number of visitors is limited.
Best way is to buy your tickets the day before or 2 hours in advance. You may wait an hour after purchasing your tickets. If that´s the case have a cup of coffee or tea in the Lavazza next to the museum.

A multimedia adventure-museum with waxworks, stages, videobeaming and 3D-effects gives you a pictographic survey of the history of Weimar. It is a stunning and entertaining time travel through five millenia, with encounters with greatnesses of minds as Goethe, Schiller, Luther and Duchess Anna Amalia.

Great for starting to explore Weimar and a gorgeous introduction to this overwhelming city.

Guided tours daily
April-Oct. 10-19
Nov.-March 10-18

Schillerstraße 16-18

For further information check:

www.weimarhaus.de

Available in English.

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It's also one of the must-see activities in the city.
The park itself is very attracting, relaxing and inspiring.
I can understand why Johann Wolfgang von Goethe always preferred to stay in this quiet place...

In this museum you can see the perhaps greatest collection of exhibitis of the world-famous Bauhaus school. The school of architecture and applied arts was founded in Weimar 1907. You can see here the works of Walter Gropius (the Bauhaus’s first director), Johannes Itten, Lyonel Feininger and Marcel Breuer. and other Jugendstil artists.
The entrance cost 4 Euro.

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In this house Fridrich Schiller lived in years 1802-1805 since his death. He wrote here his last great dramas: "Messina" and "Wilhelm Tell". Now this is the seat of German Schiller Society and there is too the Schiller Museum. The house (1777) is the oldest building on the street, wich is now a pedestrian zone in Weimar.