Günter Grass House, Literature and art museum in Lübeck, Germany.
The Günter Grass House is a museum in Lübeck's Old City dedicated to the writer's artistic works, displaying drawings, prints, watercolors, and sculptures. The collection spans works from different periods of his life and documents his varied creative practice.
The museum opened in October 2002 at Glockengießerstraße 21, run by the Kulturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck. Grass's secretariat and archive had occupied the same building since the 1990s, though the museum worked independently of him. After his death in 2015, the house co-organised the central memorial at Theater Lübeck on 10 May 2015, with John Irving giving the main address.
The museum opened in October 2002 as a forum for literature and visual art, run by the Kulturstiftung Hansestadt Lübeck. Each year around Grass's October birthday one of the five exhibition elements is replaced, and visitors vote at the end of the tour on which aspect of his life and work should be shown next; past choices included "Grass und die Ostsee" (2015) and "Grass und der Wald" (2019).
The museum occupies two renovated Old Town houses on Glockengießerstraße, below St. Catherine's Church, on narrow 50-metre plots joined by a medieval courtyard. The exhibition rooms are in the rear building, reached through the sculpture courtyard; a rear garden path connects to the Willy Brandt House on Königstraße.
The museum's collection holds over 1,400 original drawings, lithographs, watercolours and etchings, plus numerous manuscripts; the entire holdings were digitised in 2016. In December 2020 it acquired the complete manuscript versions of the autobiographies Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (2006) and Die Box (2008).
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