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Bauhaus Museum
The Bauhaus Museum gives a fascinating insight into this group of artists and artisans, who shaped our understanding of modern design (particularly in the city of Chicago) like no other. The Bauhaus School and movement was founded in Weimar in 1919 by Walter Gropius, who drew top artists including Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger and Schlemmer as teachers.
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Goethe Haus
No other individual is as closely associated with Weimar as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who lived here from 1775 until his death in 1832. In 1792, his sponsor and employer, Duke Carl August, gave him a house as a gift. Goethe Haus is where he worked, studied, researched and wrote such immortal works as Faust .
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Goethe Nationalmuseum
Less about the great man of letters himself than his epoch, the Goethe Nationalmuseum focuses on the late 17th- and early 18th-century, a period referred to as Weimar Classicism. Goethe, Schiller, his ducal patrons (Anna Amalia and Carl August), his muse (Charlotte von Stein) and various cultural spear-carriers feature in this loose collection of paintings, books, busts, letters and other objets d'art.
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Goethes Gartenhaus
The sprawling Ilm Park, the eastern flank of the Altstadt, is an inspiring and romantic spot, named after the little river that runs through it. Its most famous feature is Goethes Gartenhaus. This simple cottage (1776) was an early present from Duke Carl August and was intended to induce Goethe to stay in Weimar. It worked: he lived in this building until 1782, and also helped landscape the park. In 1999, an exact replica of the house was built in Bad Sulza to protect the original from the tourist invasions.
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Liszt Haus
On the western edge of Ilm Park, is the Liszt Haus. The composer and pianist Franz Liszt resided in Weimar in 1848 and again from 1869 to 1886 in this house, when he wrote Hungarian Rhapsody and Faust Symphony .
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Neues Museum
The Neues Museum houses works of contemporary art in Weimar. The complex was built in 1863, as a gallery exclusively for works relating to Homer's Odyssey , but another odyssey occurred after it was used as a Halle der Volksgemeinschaft (literally 'people's solidarity hall') by the Nazis, and was then renamed Karl-Marx-Platz under the GDR.
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Nietzsche Archiv
Belgian Art Nouveau architect, designer and painter Henry van de Velde designed the ground floor of the Nietzsche Archiv, where the philosopher spent his final years in illness, and the building that now houses the Bauhaus Universität (Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse).
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Römisches Haus
Within view of the Gartenhaus in Ilm Park is the Römisches Haus, Carl August's summer retreat, built between 1792 and 1797 under Goethe's supervision. Perched on top of an artificial bluff, Weimar's first neoclassical house now contains restored period rooms and an exhibit on Ilm Park.
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Schiller Haus
The dramatist Friedrich von Schiller lived in Weimar from 1799 until his early death in 1805. Unlike Goethe, however, he had to buy his own house: Schiller Haus. The study at the end of the 2nd floor contains his deathbed, as well as the desk where he penned Wilhelm Tell and other works. Both Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller were interred at the Historischer Friedhof (Historic Cemetery) in the neoclassical Fürstengruft, along with Duke Carl August.
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Schloss Belvedere
On the outskirts of Weimar, the lovely Belvedere Park harbours Carl August's former hunting palace. Schloss Belvedere, displays glass, porcelain, faïence and weapons from the late 17th and 18th centuries. Bus 12 runs hourly from Goetheplatz.
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Schloss Tiefurt
A few kilometres east of the Hauptbahnhof, Tiefurt Park is an English-style garden that envelops Anna Amalia's Schloss Tiefurt, her own 'temple of the muses'. The rooms are furnished to give visitors an impression of the age and her round-table gatherings, which often included Goethe; take bus 3.
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Weimar Haus
Near Schiller House, Weimar Haus offers a half-hour Disneyland-style multimedia history of Weimar, from prehistory to classicism. The guide - purists hold your breath - has an animatronic Goethe (it's also available in English).
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