Reuter-Wagner Museum


This museum, housed in the 1866 villa once owned by writer Fritz Reuter, hosts the most extensive collection on the composer Richard Wagner’s life and times outside Bayreuth, with over 200,000 items. Located at the foot of the Wartburg, the inspiration for Wagner’s Tannhäuser, it's like stepping back in time.


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