Beethoven in Bonn, where?

Museum
The museum at Ludwig van Beethoven's birth place is one of the most frequented music museums
worldwide and one of the 100 most popular sights in Germany. Since December 17, 2019, the
museum has been hosting a new and enlarged permanent exhibition. It provides a new approach
to experiencing Beethoven as an artist and fellow human being in a modern, inspiring and exciting
way. New rooms are the vault with manuscripts, a music room for regular concerts on historic
keyboards and a special area for temporary exhibitions.
Opening hours
Wednesday to Monday 10 am - 6 pm (last admission at 5:30 pm),
the museum is closed on Tuesdays.
The museum is also closed on: New Year's Day, Mardi Gras, Shrove Monday, Good Friday, Easter
Sunday, from 24 to 26 December and New Year's Eve.
During the pandemic, we recommend wearing a mouth-nose covering.

Please note:
The museum is a historic listed building with low ceiling beams and railings, unusual distances
between steps and different floor levels. For your own safety, please move through the building
and the exhibition with appropriate caution.
Location
The Beethoven-Haus (Bonngasse 20 und 24-26) is situated in the centre of Bonn on the edge of
the pedestrian zone, not far from the river Rhine.
Bonngasse is within easy walking distance of the main station. Trams and buses stop at the nearby
Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz, where taxis can also be found. The city car parks offer parking facilities:
the closest are Stiftsgarage, Marktgarage and Friedensplatzgarage.

Google Maps
Width: 50°44'12.67"N
Lenght: 7° 6'4.50"E

Tram: 62, 65, 66 and 67

Bus: 529, 537, 540, 550, 551, 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 640
Stop: Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz / Beethoven-Haus

Admission
Prices:
Adults: € 10, children: € 7
Reduced admission for individual visitors
Reduced admission for registered groups

Tickets:
Beethoven-Haus, Bonngasse 21, opposite the entrance of the museum
Online booking

Mediaguides:
Smartphone app "Beethoven-Haus Bonn" per free download at Apple Store and Google Play in
German, English, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Korean. In German, a version for
children and inclusive versions for the blind and visually impaired, in plain language and in sign
language are also available.
Free rental devices are offered (on availability) at the  museum ticket desk in German, English,
Chinese, French, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Italian

Museum concerts: 
On many weekends visitors can listen to "Music in Beethoven's time" on historical keyboard
instruments. Pianists explain the special features of the instruments. The concerts last 40 minutes
and take place on fixed dates on Fridays and Saturdays at 5 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. in the
music room of the museum. Tickets for 5 Euro (plus admission to the museum) can be bought in
the Beethoven-Haus shop (always from Monday before the concert). These concerts are for
individual visitors of the museum only.

Guided tours:
See education
Birthplace
Beethoven's birthplace and dwelling
The house at Bonngasse 20, where composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in December 1770,
is one of the few remaining houses in Bonn built in the 18th century. Its baroque stone facade was
erected over cellars dating back to the 12th or 13th century. The ground floor accommodated a
kitchen and a utility room, underneath which was a cellar. On the first floor, there were two
smaller rooms and a somewhat larger room. The bedrooms were in the attic.

Beethoven's parents, electoral court singer Johann van Beethoven and his wife Maria Magdalena,
née Keverich, moved into the garden wing in November 1767. Other electoral court musicians
lived nearby, among them Johann Peter Salomon in the front building, electoral court musical
director Ludwig van Beethoven (grandfather) opposite of the street and hornist Nikolaus Simrock.

In 1774 the Beethoven family left their first house and moved to a place at the Auf dem Dreieck
square. From 1776 on they lived for ten years with interruptions at Rheingasse in a house known
as "Zum Walfisch", the so-called Fischer house, and from 1787 onwards at Wenzelgasse. None of
the later Beethoven houses has survived.

The building in the 19th and 20th century

The house "Im Mohren"
Permanent exhibition
Beethoven's birthplace and dwelling
On stepping into the inner courtyard, the historical atmosphere takes visitors back to Beethoven's
times. A tour through the twelve rooms in the Museum afford deeper insight into the life and work
of the great composer. Over 100 original exhibits reflect Beethoven's thoughts and emotions, work
and influence.

Guided virtual tour

Virtual tour to discover
Temporary exhibition
Our temporary exhibitions cover exciting topics on Beethoven, the historical background or
reception history. The Beethoven-Haus has around three temporary exhibitions a year, often in
cooperation with other museums and collections. Many of them are accompanied by books or
catalogues.

Temporary exhibition
Future exhibitions
Past exhibitions
Internet exhibitions
As an accompainment to special exhibitions at the Beethoven-House several internet exhibitions
were created. Certain topics can be accessed for further information:

Sublime, quaint or modern

Beethoven monuments of the 19th and 20th century
Beethoven's capital
"All these notes don't pay my needs!!"
Beethoven and Great Britain
"Where your compositions are preferred to any other..."
The power of music
Cultural life in the German prisoner-of-war camp Bando in Japan (Japanese only)
Beethoven on postage stamps
Colouring the sound
Tommaso De Meo's visual interpretations of Beethoven's nine symphonies
The Beethoven-Haus – 125 years
Animated and moving history (German only)
Collection
The manuscripts, pictures, musical instruments and mementos displayed in the exhibitions form
the core of the museum's collection. In the early years following the foundation of the Beethoven-
Haus Association in 1889, important items such as Beethoven's last pianoforte (an instrument
made by the Viennese piano manufacturer Conrad Graf), or the original manuscript of the
"Moonlight" sonata and the "Pastoral" symphony were acquired. Today it is the largest and most
diverse Beethoven collection in the world. It includes manuscripts, letters, pictures, busts, coins
and medallions, musical instruments, furniture and everyday items used by Beethoven.