Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.
On this page you will find all frequently asked questions about the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, the Online-Ticketshop, group registrations and the Combo ticket - Modernism 2020.
Because of the high demand for tickets to the historic library, we strongly recommend purchasing tickets in advance via our online ticket shop. This ensures hassle-free admission and is the surest way to plan your visit. If there are no more tickets available on your desired date, you may be able to secure tickets at the museum ticket counter in person within three days of your visit. These are intended for those who were unable to plan and order tickets ahead, and only a limited number of tickets are available for this purpose each day. It is not possible to reserve these day tickets in advance by phone or email.
For group reservations of 10 persons or more, please contact our Visitor Service team.
Not all available tickets are offered via the online ticket shop. We always reserve a certain number for on-site purchases. If you show up in person at our museum ticket counters within three days of your desired visit, you have the chance of securing tickets even if all the online tickets for that day are sold out.
We recommend purchasing tickets online in advance for our heavily frequented museums:
Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Goethe National Museum with the Goethe Residence, Bauhaus Museum, Museum Neues Weimar, Schiller Museum with the Schiller Residence, Goethe Gartenhaus and Haus Am Horn.
Tickets are sold on location at the following sites:
Nietzsche-Archiv, Haus Hohe Pappeln, Ducal Vault, Park Cave, Kochberg Castle and the Wittumspalais. In fact, tickets to these sites are not even sold via the online ticket shop. Admission is possible without prior reservation.
We offer free admission to the Liszt House, the Roman House, Tiefurt Mansion and the Wieland Estate in Ossmannstedt.
When you purchase a ticket via our online ticket shop, you are required to select your desired admission time. The admission time is limited to 15 minutes and has no effect on the duration of your visit. For a more stress-free experience, we ask you to arrive on time, i.e. several minutes before your designated timeslot. Timeslot admission is important as it helps us prevent visitor numbers from exceeding the capacity of our museums. Controlled and restricted admission to our listed historic buildings is necessary to preserve them for future generations.
An error message during the payment process can happen if the data you provided is inaccurate, your credit card has expired, or you haven’t registered for 3D Secure authentication with your bank. Please start a second attempt using a different browser, a different payment method or credit card. Before paying, be sure that your order is in the shopping cart. The tickets you selected during your first attempt should still be there even if the payment process didn’t work the first time. You don’t have to add your desired tickets to the shopping cart again.
It is not possible to exchange or return online tickets. Cancellation is excluded as the purchase of the ticket represents a contract for services rendered in connection with recreational activities to be performed on a specific date or time, in accordance with §312g par. 2 no. 9 of German Civil Code (BGB).
If you should suddenly get sick before your planned visit, please contact us at ticketshop@klassik-stiftung.de. We will review the matter. However, please note that the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is not obliged to grant refunds on purchased tickets.
After payment has been accepted, you will receive your purchase confirmation, an invoice and your tickets as email attachments. These are sent at the customer’s risk to the email address they provided. The email with its attachments is only sent out once and cannot be re-sent. The tickets are issued in PDF format and can be printed out (DIN A4). Or you can have them ready on your smartphone and present them to the museum staff upon admission.
Purchased tickets are always included in the email attachments. If you cannot see them, it might have to do with your email provider or the settings in your email program. Make sure that your email provider’s firewall (antivirus program) is not blocking attachments or that the email didn’t land in your spam folder. After completing the ordering process, registered customers can view their purchased tickets anytime under “My Profile”.
After entering a museum, there is no limit to how long you are allowed to stay. The only exception applies to the Rococo Hall in the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek. Visitors are permitted to remain in the hall for only 30 minutes due to conservatorial and curatorial reasons.
No, your online ticket entitles you to walk past everyone in the queue and show your ticket to the staff at the door. Please remember to place your personal belongings in the visitor lockers before entering.
All museums are closed on 24 December (Christmas Eve).
The museums are open (excluding those which close for the winter) on Good Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Ascension, Pentecost Monday, German Unification Day (3 October), Reformation Day (31 October / bank holiday in Thuringia), 1st and 2nd Christmas Days (25 and 26 December), New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. This applies even if a holiday happens to fall on a museum’s regular closing day.
You will have more luck contacting them by email: besucherservice@klassik-stiftung.de. Our telephone staff – available Monday to Friday from 10 am to 12 pm – handle individual matters that cannot be resolved by email. If this applies to your case, please call +49 3643 545-400.
Please plan school class visits at least three weeks in advance. If you’re interested in visiting during peak tourist season, we recommend booking several months in advance, especially if you wish to purchase tickets for a specific date. Please use our group registration form for this purpose.
Note: Before your visit, please make sure that your students are familiar with our Visitor Rules. If your students cannot follow these on their own, the group must be accompanied by an adult chaperone. Should a member of the group violate our Visitor Rules, our service team is instructed to make use of our domiciliary rights.
For conservational reasons, we limit the number of visitors in the historical residences, museums, castles and the Historic Library building of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek.
Depending on the museum, we allow 50 visitors at once in our museums (50 persons in the Rococo Hall | 100 persons in the historical residences | 200 persons in the City Castle museum. Personen im Schlossmuseum). Furthermore, single groups may not exceed 25 persons per admission period. Groups visiting the Park Cave may not exceed 10 persons at once in accordance with German mining regulations.
The following individuals receive reduced admission upon presentation of the corresponding certificate/ID: students (excluding distance-learning students), severely handicapped persons, persons completing voluntary civil service or military service, trainees and apprentices, unemployed persons
Individual guests need not register in advance when visiting our museums and castles. Groups of 10 persons or more should register ahead via our group registration form to ensure that the visit goes smoothly for everyone with as little stress as possible.
For highly frequented museums, we strongly recommend purchasing online tickets in advance – in some cases, weeks in advance. This especially applies to the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek with the Rococo Hall and the Goethe National Museum with the Goethe Residence.
Please plan your visit at least three weeks in advance. If you wish to book on a specific date, especially during peak tourist season, we recommend purchasing your tickets several months in advance. Please use our group registration form for this purpose.
Normally our guided tours are offered in German. We do provide guided tours in several foreign languages upon request and in coordination with our Visitor Service team for a surcharge of 10 euros per guided tour.
The registration details with regard to the scheduled date and number of participants is binding. We can only guarantee your visit for the agreed-upon time. If you arrive later than 15 minutes of the contractually agreed-upon time of your visit or tour, your claim to the offered service expires. The customer is billed all the same in accordance with the General Terms and Conditions of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.
As a rule, cancellations must be communicated in writing. To cancel your booking, please express your wish by responding to the confirmation email. Verbal cancellations are not accepted. The respective deadlines are provided in the General Terms and Conditions.
Closing days are necessary to carry out conservational work and restoration measures, e.g. applying protective wax to the floors which requires several hours to dry. Closing days are also used for filming and photo shoots, as well as curatorial or library activities. Our museums and historic sites close either on Mondays or Tuesdays, so that there are always programmes and events offered each day of the week.
We ask you to leave your dog outside. Even small dogs which could fit inside in a tote bag are not allowed. This rule applies to all small pets. The only exception is assistance dogs. Please speak with our service team in advance if you will be visiting one of our museums together with your assistance dog.
The toilets (WCs) in museums of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are available to all guests at no charge. When visiting the Park on the Ilm, you will find public toilets next to the Liszt House, next to the Goethe Gartenhaus and at the Swinging Bridge at the far end of the park. There are also public WCs in the park at Tiefurt Mansion.
The group ticket counter is located at the Goethe National Museum on Frauenplan. Please use the group entrance on Seifengasse.
Group bookings can be paid in cash on site or by using cashless payment methods. Payment by invoice is only possible with prior approval from the Visitor Service team.
Definitely! For just 49 euros, you can visit all the museums of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar as many times as you want for the next 364 days and participate in all offered tours at no additional charge. All you have to do is book the time of your planned visits in the Ticketshop. The cost of the MuseumsCard usually pays for itself after your second visit – at the latest.
The ModerneCard saves you money even if you only visit the Bauhaus Museum and the Museum Neues Weimar. The ModerneCard entitles the holder to one-time admission to the following museums: Bauhaus-Museum, Museum Neues Weimar, Haus Am Horn, Haus Hohe Pappeln, Nietzsche-Archiv. It normally cost 17 euros, or just 12 euros at the reduced rate for certain visitor groups. Please note that the Haus Hohe Pappeln is currently closed for renovation until 20 March 2027. The Nietzsche-Archiv will be closed for renovation in 2026.
The WeimarCard entitles the holder to one-time admission to all the museums of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar (with the exception of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek) but is valid for only 48 hours after the first time it is used. Also, the tours offered by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are not included in the price. With the WeimarCard, you can also visit the municipal museums, use Weimar’s public transportation and participate in a city tour. For an overview of the benefits of the WeimarCard, click here.
With the BauhausCard, you receive free admission to all the museums and sites of the Bauhaus Kooperation in Weimar, Berlin and Dessau. The BauhausCard entitles the holder to one-time admission to each of the following museums:
For more information, click here.
Most of the museums and poet residences are within walking distance from one another, so you should have no problem visiting several of them in one day. There is no limit to how long you stay – with the exception of the Rococo Hall where a 30-minute audio guide ushers visitors through. Based on the feedback we have received from our guests, we do not recommend visiting more than three museums and poet residences in one day.
Before visiting the Bauhaus Museum, we recommend visiting the Museum Neues Weimar as the exhibition there presents the Way to the Bauhaus. Afterwards, you can continue exploring the art world around 1900 and the period of early modernism (Haus Am Horn, Nietzsche Archiv, Haus Hohe Pappeln (currently closed for renovation) or the contemporary installation Concert for Buchenwald by Rebecca Horn in the former tram depot.
After visiting the Rococo Hall, we recommend visiting some of the other famous sites of Weimar Classicism or the Study Centre of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek and the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv.
You can also combine a visit to Tiefurt Mansion with an excursion to the Wieland Estate in Ossmannstedt. Both destinations are connected by the Ilm River bicycle route.
The museums located in the greater Weimar region include Kochberg Castle in Grosskochberg (ca. 40 km away from Weimar), Belvedere Castle (ca. 6 km away from downtown Weimar), Wieland Estate in Ossmannstedt (ca. 12 km away from Weimar), Tiefurt Mansion (ca. 3 km away from downtown Weimar), the Schiller Museum in Bauerbach (ca. 120 km away from Weimar), Ettersburg Castle (ca. 9 km away from Weimar) and the Carriage Museum in Auerstedt near Bad Sulza (ca. 25 km away from Weimar).
We offer free admission to the following museums and historic sites: Liszt House, Roman House, Wieland Estate in Ossmannstedt, Tiefurt Mansion, the gardener’s cottage at Belvedere, Study Centre of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek and the Goethe- und Schiller -Archiv.
There are also areas in other museums that are accessible without a ticket, e.g. the ground floor of the Bauhaus Museum, foyer/ former basement level of the Wittumspalais, and the entrance area, staircase and south gallery of the Museum Neues Weimar. If you have any questions, our Visitor Service team would be happy to assist you: besucherservice@klassik-stiftung.de.
Before entering our museums, please use the lockers to stow away any coats and bags that are larger than DIN A4 (i.e. the size of normal piece of paper). Remember to take coins with you for this purpose. It is not permitted to eat or drink inside the museums. We also ask you to switch your mobile devices to silent mode and refrain from telephoning during your visit. If you wish to take along a beverage for medical reasons, please speak with our service team on location.
Note to teachers: Please familiarise your students with our Visitor Rules before your visit. If your students cannot follow these on their own, the group must be accompanied by an adult chaperone. Should a member of the group violate our Visitor Rules, our service team is instructed to make use of our domiciliary rights.
You can find the complete Visitor Rules here
For a complete list of events offered by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, please consult our event calendar.
Please help us protect our parks as places of (UNESCO World Heritage) culture, relaxation and species conservation for future generations. This means staying on the marked paths, picnicking and playing only in the specially designated areas and disposing of your waste properly. Please keep your dogs on the lead. Bathing in the Ilm River is not permitted. If you wish to take a swim, please use Weimar’s public swimming pools at Schwanseebad. Bicycling is possible on Corona-Schröter-Weg. You can find the complete Park Rules here .
Tables and chairs are arranged beneath sunbrellas in front of the Weimar City Castle where you can enjoy a pleasant view of the park. For an amazing panorama of Weimar, we recommend the sun terrace on the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv where tables and chairs are available for visitors. As of spring 2026, visitors can have picnics again in the courtyard at the Wittumspalais. There are also places to sit down in front of the Nietzsche-Archiv, at the Liszt House, Roman House, Goethe Gartenhaus and on the terrace of the Goethe National Museum. Of course, picnickers are always welcome to use the specially designated meadows in our parks. For school classes, we recommend arranging lunches and snack breaks at the Wittumspalais or the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv. For tour groups, we recommend starting the day on the terrace of the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv with its impressive view of the city.
You can purchase various beverages and cookies at the counter operated by our partner samocca/ Diakonie : Nietzsche-Archiv, Roman House, Wieland Estate in Ossmannstedt, Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv and the Co-Lab in front of the City Castle. At the Workshop Café in the Museum Neues Weimar, at the Wieland Estate in Ossmannstedt and the Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv, you can also enjoy coffee and other hot beverages. Our partners in gastronomy offer a wide selection of food and drinks at the Bauhaus Museum, Belevedere Castle, the Study Centre, Kochberg Castle and Ettersburg Castle. For more, click here.
Most museums managed by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are historical residences. For conservatorial and conservational reasons, some of the rooms cannot be adequately illuminated with electric lighting when daylight wanes. That’s why our opening hours vary with the seasonal changes in daylight from the last Sunday in October to the last Saturday in March. Some museums are closed between November and March because they cannot be adequately heated during the winter months.
The following museums are closed in the winter: the art installation “Concert for Buchenwald” by Rebecca Horn at the E-Werk (former tram station), Nietzsche-Archiv, Roman House, Castle Belvedere, Tiefurt Mansion, Kochberg Castle and Liebhabertheater, and the Wieland Estate in Ossmannstedt.
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar allows photos to be taken inside the museums and historical sites during regular opening hours for personal use and only in publicly accessible areas. Please bear in mind, however, that posting such photos on the Internet or on personal profiles in social media is not recognised as personal use and could represent copyright infringement under certain circumstances. This especially applies to photos taken in the Bauhaus Museum Weimar, the Neues Museum Weimar, the Haus Hohe Pappeln, the Haus Am Horn, the Nietzsche-Archiv and the installation “Concert for Buchenwald” by Rebecca Horn.
Visitors are not permitted to take photos in special exhibitions. Furthermore, it is not allowed to use flashes, auxiliary lighting or tripods. When taking photos of displayed items, please show courtesy to other visitors. The privacy of others and the museum staff must be respected.
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar does not charge fees for private photos. Filming permits for press purposes are issued by our Press Office. Photo queries and duplication rights for commercial purposes are managed by the Fotothek.
Yes, the audio and media guides in the museums are generally free of charge and included in the entrance fee to the respective museum. There are no fees when using the Weimar+ app on your own smartphone/tablet. If a rental device from the Klassik Stiftung Weimar is used, a rental fee of €2 will be charged.
Goethe’s garden is accessible in the summertime (weather permitting) during regular opening hours of the Goethe Residence. Our staff is required to close off the garden to the public in the event of a downpour, rain, hail, thunderstorm, windstorm or if path conditions pose a risk to visitors.
No. Only staff members of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar or those contracted on its behalf are allowed to give tours of the museums of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Tour guides must hold a valid license issued by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The license must be presented to the supervisory staff on duty in the museums upon request. Those who do not hold a license issued by the Klassik Stiftung are not entitled to give tours in our museums.
Due to the structural conditions of the historical sites and various landmark preservation regulations, not all museums are fully handicap accessible. At the Goethe National Museum, handicapped persons can borrow lightweight, foldable wheelchairs. Click here for information on handicapped accessibility in the museums and historical sites of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.
Before your visit, we recommend contacting the staff at Visitor Information who will happy to tell you more about possibilities of access. More information at .
Seating is limited in our museums. Please contact the respective museum ticket counter for more details. At some museums, portable folding chairs can be borrowed for the duration of your visit.
In selected facilities, areas have been selected that offer a breastfeeding or nappy-changing area for parents with their baby. Young families can retreat here to breastfeed and change nappies when they are out and about in the city.
We recommend that bus tourists disembark at the parking lot at the Weimar Atrium. From there, it is a just a several-minute walk to Weimar’s historical downtown. For information on all parking facilities and respective parking fees, please visit the website of the city of Weimar.
You can reach the city centre within a few minutes by taking the bus lines 1, 2, 5, 7, 8 in the direction “Stadtzentrum – Goetheplatz”. From there, it’s only a short walk to Theaterplatz with its famous Goethe and Schiller monument and the Wittumspalais.
To order a MuseumsCard, simply send an email with your request to besucherservice@klassik-stiftung.de. We offer this service to those who are unable to purchase a MuseumsCard in person at our museum ticket counters or at the Tourist Information office on the marketplace.
All parks of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are freely accessible all year round.
In an email to besucherservice@klassik-stiftung.de, describe what, when and in which museum or park you believe you lost your personal item. Try to be as precise as possible, as this will help us locate it. Either it will be still at our premises or will have been forwarded to Weimar’s Lost and Found office. However, we should remind you that things do go missing every year that never turn up again.
We cannot send digital online tickets to you by mail. If you require an online ticket, try to find a suitable way to obtain it, e.g. by asking someone who has an Internet connection and email address to get it for you.
Please send your feedback to: besucherservice@klassik-stiftung.de. We look forward to hearing about your experience!
Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.