The Goethe Museum is a cultural-historical museum devoted to the greatest German poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). It is funded by the Anton and Katharina Kippenberg Foundation and the City of Düsseldorf.

All-Round Care

of the original manuscripts and of many other documents lies in the hands of our dedicated team. And not only that. Also keeping the documents available for research and the maintenance of valuable facsimilies is part of...

The Goethe Museum Library is a specialized academic research library devoted to Goethe and his times. It is available to the public as a reference library and contains around 25,000 volumes.

Inspiration

“One can build beautiful things, even with the stones that are placed in one’s way.”   
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A quote from the master himself goes down well on every social occasion. Why?

Feelings as Commodity

It begins with the tragedies of Antiquity. It continues in the Courtly Love poetry of the Middle ages, then, later, with Classicism, and today it finds expression in the film versions of great novels: When did the...