Bach House, Music museum in Eisenach, Germany
The Bach House is a music museum in Eisenach housed in two connected buildings that display baroque instruments, manuscripts, and personal objects belonging to Johann Sebastian Bach. The collection features both everyday items from his household and rare historical instruments along with original scores of his compositions.
The house was built in two parts, the eastern in 1456 and the western in 1458, joined around 1611. In 1857 Karl Hermann Bitter identified it as Bach's birthplace, and in 1868 the local music society mounted a memorial plaque above the entrance. The Neue Bachgesellschaft bought the building in 1905 and opened it as the first Bach museum in 1907.
The museum hosts regular performances on historical keyboard instruments including harpsichord, clavichord, and baroque organ, bringing the soundscapes of Bach's era to life for visitors. These demonstrations help people understand how the composer's music originally sounded in his time.
The museum stands at Frauenplan 21, in Eisenach's old town, with the entrance marked by the door from Bach's Leipzig Thomasschule apartment. The half-timbered house has narrow stairs between floors, and the exhibition spreads over 600 m² across several connected buildings. The museum garden behind the house, once a vegetable plot and cattle pasture, offers a bench to rest.
The entrance door to the exhibition came from Bach's Leipzig apartment in the St. Thomas School, saved by teacher Bernhard Friedrich Richter before the building was demolished in 1902. Since the museum reopened in 2007 it marks the way into the collection.
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