Brahms-Museum, Biographical museum in Neustadt, Hamburg, Germany
The Brahms-Museum is a biographical museum in Neustadt housed within a merchant house dating to 1751. Two floors display photographs, manuscripts, concert programs, and belongings that belonged to the composer.
The museum was founded in 1971 by the Johannes-Brahms-Gesellschaft, established in 1969, and is housed in a listed merchant's house built in 1751 on Peterstraße. It occupies two floors near the site of Brahms's birth and is part of the Composers Quarter, which also commemorates other composers linked to Hamburg.
The museum is run by the Johannes Brahms Society, founded in 1969, which maintains his memory and promotes national and international Brahms research. Its library of over 300 books and the complete G. Henle Verlag edition is available to visitors for study. Regular walking tours follow historical Brahms sites across Hamburg.
The museum occupies two floors of a listed merchant house at Peterstraße 39, near St. Michaelis Church and the Landungsbrücken. The building has no wheelchair access, and the collection is reached by stairs. The reference library is available to visitors for study on site.
The table piano in the library is dated 1859 in the German sources and about 1860 in the English one; it was made by Baumgardten & Heins and Brahms used it for piano lessons. It stands among a reference library of over 300 books, the complete G. Henle Verlag Brahms edition, recordings and facsimiles of scores and letters.
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