Your Visit to Mendelssohn House in Leipzig

Visit Mendelssohn House in Leipzig 365 days a year!

Open daily from 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

(24 and 31 December 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.)

Spending money is also going more moderately than I thought.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy on his trip to Scotland in 1829

Museum: EUR 10.00 / reduced EUR 8.00 / with "Leipzig-Pass" EUR 3,50
Concert: EUR 18.00 / reduced EUR 14.00, unless otherwise stated
annual ticket: EUR 30.00

Students and apprentices, senior citizens and Leipzig Card holders are entitled to a reduction.
Admission is free for children and pupils up to the age of 18.

Every Saturday at 10 a.m. we invite you to a Mendelssohn tour through the museum and Leipzig’s city centre in the composer's footsteps. The tour will be held in German.

EUR 15
Duration: approx. 2 hours

Registration required.
Contact: buero@mendelssohn-stiftung.de / +49 341 9628820

Experience Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his world in an individual guided tour through the museum.

museum admission fee per person plus EUR 30.00 guided tour fee
Duration: approx. 1.5 hours

Registration in advance is required. Guided tours can be given in German, by request in English and  several other languages.
Contact: buero@mendelssohn-stiftung.de / +49 341 9628820

You can find information about our guided tours and workshops for children and young people here.

The highlight of your tour can be a chamber concert in the music salon.

Advance arrangement required.
Contact: buero@mendelssohn-stiftung.de / +49 341 9628820

There is a matinee in the music salon every Sunday at 11 a.m. Experience chamber music in the tradition of the Mendelssohn Bartholdy family at the historical venue.

EUR 18.00 / reduced EUR 14.00, unless otherwise stated / "Leipzig-Pass" EUR 05.00

Students, senior citizens and Leipzig Card holders are entitled to a reduction.

Ticket reservation recommended.
Contact: buero@mendelssohn-stiftung.de / +49 341 9628820

End your visit to the museum in our little café or the inviting garden. The museum shop offers literature about Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his time as well as CDs, postcards and attractive souvenirs. Also visit our online museum shop.

Mendelssohn House is located at Goldschmidtstrasse 12 in the centre of Leipzig, just a few minutes' walk from Augustusplatz with numerous public transport connections. The Gewandhaus concert hall and the opera house are also located there, as well as the nearest underground car park.

Fortunately, the flat was found (here at Königstrasse no. 5, outside the city close to the promenade, with garden etc.)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in a letter to his friend, Karl Klingemann

From the late summer of 1845, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his family filled the bel étage with life and music. Numerous prominent visitors, including Clara and Robert Schumann, Louis Spohr, Joseph Joachim, Hans Christian Andersen, Jenny Lind, Raymund Härtel and Richard Wagner, came up the stairs. Today, visitors enter Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's flat via the historic staircase, which has been restored to its original design as it was during the artist's lifetime. The composer's study, where works such as the Elijah oratorio were created, the magnificent music salon where a concert takes place every Sunday, the family-owned furniture, letters and sheet music, watercolours by Mendelssohn, and extensive information on the life and work of the artist make this authentic place an unforgettable experience.

In Königsstrasse no. 5 up 1 flight of stairs are lodgings for you ...!
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to his sister, Fanny Hensel

The life of the composer and pianist Fanny Hensel can be discovered on the second floor. This most interesting woman was the older sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and received a comprehensive musical education together with him. Beyond the close sibling bond, both were each other's musical advisors and fierce critics. After her marriage to the painter Wilhelm Hensel, Fanny Hensel lived in the garden house of her parents' property at Leipziger Strasse 3 in Berlin, which she turned into a musical centre. The short film Sonntagsmusiken (Sunday concerts) recounts this. Fanny Hensel's piano cycle Das Jahr (The Year) accompanies the visitor thematically and acoustically through the exhibition rooms.

Effectus 13: Musica homines laetificat - Music delights the people from the treatise Complexus effectuum musices by Johannes Tinctoris

The highlight on the ground floor of the museum is the Effektorium, an installation that is unique in the world and allows visitors to conduct a virtual orchestra or a virtual choir with works by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

From the stand, the conductor brings 13 steles to life, which, depending on the piece selected, are transformed into groups of instruments or vocal registers. A short tune-up fills the large room, then you can begin. Here it is possible to try out the effect of different tempi, to let your favourite instrument play alone, to switch from modern to historical orchestral sound, to try out the acoustics of different rooms, and to bathe the room in different colours. The stand may also be left to five master conductors, and you can listen to their interpretations of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Scottish Symphony.

The Effektorium is a feast for the senses.