Bach House (Eisenach)
Bachhaus Eisenach | |
Bachhaus Eisenach, 2020 | |
| Established | May 27, 1907 |
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| Location | Frauenplan 21, Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°58′17.37″N 10°19′21.4″E / 50.9714917°N 10.322611°E |
| Type | Music museum, biographical museum, memorial site |
| Visitors | 60,057 (2016) |
| Director | Jörg Hansen |
| Owner | Neue Bachgesellschaft e.V., Leipzig |
| Website | www |
The Bach House in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany, is a museum dedicated to the composer Johann Sebastian Bach who was born in the city. On its 600 m2 it displays around 250 original exhibits, among them a Bach music autograph. The core of the building complex is a half-timbered house, ca. 550 years old, which was mistakenly identified as Bach's birth house in the middle of the 19th century. In 1905, the Leipzig-based Neue Bachgesellschaft acquired the building. In 1907, it was opened as the first Bach museum.