
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 September 14, 2019, the museum has been hosting a new permanent exhibition presenting objects from the Beethoven-Haus collection and a new approach to experiencing Beethoven as an artist and fellow human being in a modern, inspiring and exciting way.
Opening hours
The museum is open daily from 10am to 6pm.
Closed on Monday, 16 December exceptionally (closed company)
Beethoven's birthplace is closed very rarely: New Year's Day, the Thursday and the Monday preceding Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, from 24 to 26 December, New Year's Eve
From December 17, the entire new Beethoven-Haus with all new areas - music room, treasury with original manuscripts, area for temporary exhibitions, shop and café - is open.

Location
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.
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
Tickets:
- Beethoven-Haus, Bonngasse 21, opposite the entrance of the museum
- Online booking
Guided tours:
- Individual visitors and groups may choose from various paid guided tours.
The prices are valid until 2019 December 31.

Birthplace
Beethoven's birthplace and dwelling
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

Permanent exhibition
Beethoven's birthplace and dwelling

Temporary exhibition
Temporary exhibition
Future exhibitions
Past exhibitions
Internet exhibitions
- 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 House – 125 years
Animated and moving history (German only)
Collection
The collection is kept in a safe, built with conservation requirements in mind, which is under the stage in the chamber music hall. Many performers feel particularly inspired by this architectural symbolism.
Most of the Beethoven collection has been digitised. In the Digital Archives it is available to everyone. There are also catalogues for additional research.
