A German Museum in Rome: Goethe’s house
Posted on 03 March 2010
Goethe’s house is a magnificent German museum located in the heart of Rome and which follows the stages made by this great Teutonic artist in Italy.
Rome is not just ancient monuments remembering the glorious imperial past, or churches testifying the Pope’s influence in this city and in great part of Italy. This Eternal city has to tell many other stories of great artists who passed by. In Via del Corso, near Piazza del Popolo there is a very particular museum dedicated to a German author who lived in Rome for some years, Goethe’s house. The great Johann Wolfgan Goethe lived in Rome during his famous Italian trip in a period between 1786 and 1788 and exactly in the rooms where he stayed together with other artists there is the German museum. A museum derived from the house where he lived and inside it there are collections of Goethe’s evidences with particular attention to his trip in Rome. In Goethe’s house, besides this permanent exhibition, there are temporary events regarding Italian – German themes and always centered on the trip’s topic, just to be always connected to the permanent museum. In the library and in the reading rooms sometimes there are cultural events, all connected to the topics we already talked about. Goethe’s house is open everyday (except on Monday) from 10 to 18. The entrance ticket is € 4,00 with reduction to € 3,00 for students with regular documentation and over 65.
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