Mozart Wohnhaus

I wanted to check out Mozart’s residence and birthhouse. I found the best deal was getting the Salzburg card which covers all the attractions. Otherwise I may have skipped one of the houses since they’re expensive.
Staff: The residence comes with an audio guide when you have the Salzburg card. There were staff on hand to stop photographs. Other than that there wasn’t much staff.
Venue: I enjoyed it. The residence is closer to the train station (birthhouse is across the river). It has a lot of information on the childhood of Mozart. It’s like a «behind the music» kind of deal.
Enjoyed this more than the birthhouse even though the residence is smaller. Definitely a hit for those who studied or enjoy Mozart.

It’s great to see the place Mozart resided and quite cool to look through the museum, however there were quite long lines to get in. They have a number of artefacts from his childhood which is nice to see, however of course it’s hard to get a real sense of it since time has moved on a lot since his days here!

To clarify some people’s error, this is the RESIDENCE of the Mozart family, not the birthplace! I’m embarrassed that some Unilocalers can’t seem to figure out the difference. There’s even a bleeping sign that says its the RESIDENCE. The birthplace is located across the river next to the Nordsee fish restaurant.
OK, I’m not a huge classical music fan, but I was surprised that we didn’t come inside to this place since Stephen is. After reading the reviews of others, we skipped it because we couldn’t justify the cost /​value. The «museum» is small, plain, and pretty much void of anything which would make this a € 10 value. Sparsely filled museum was what one Unilocaler said. Sounds like another gimmicky tourist trap.
Sure, you can say how can you put a price of the RESIDENCE of Mozart? I mean, who knows when you’ll be back in Salzburg? Well, I was just in Salzburg last February, and we ran into the same dilemma. So we passed up on this twice, and I can’t say we felt bad about it.
Sorry but the € 10 was spent across the walkway for a Sacher-​torte and coffee instead.

€ 17 for admission to both the Wohnhaus and the Geburtshaus??? Ouch! The price has jumped up quite a bit since Ashley B’s review of 2012!
After falling off the train in Salzburg, this was the first stop for our musical sister and the other two of us. The audio tour is a nice touch, and definitely enhanced our visit, with music and narration explaining nearly every object or room in the building. There were audio clips that demonstrated what some of the instruments in the room sounded like, stories about the people in the portraits, recordings of Mozart’s compositions.
I found this museum more interesting than the Geburtshaus across the way, though that may also be because we did not download the app with the museum guide there.

First time in Salzburg, so have to visit the birthplace of Mozart! Figured I took so many music history classes that it was worthwhile to see.
Lo and behold, it was a rainy day and line was out the door. I grabbed a pamphlet to see if it was worth it. Upon speaking to people that just came out of it, the highlight of the visit was definitely to see the «actual» piano that Mozart got to play on. Well, of course I wanted to see!
So I waited… and got in to see it. Cheesy to some, perhaps boring to most, but I think if you’re a classical music fan, you’d enjoy the visit.

While visiting Salzburg instead of touring the tourist flocked museum I decided to take a peek into the actual birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It’s very small, very simple and completely devoid of anything but the structure itself where you can get away from the tourists. There’s no one there to tell you that you can’t touch the walls or just sit there on the floor and meditate and relax. It seems to be very well preserved and while some may think it’s just plain and boring, I feel that’s exactly how it should be left always. There’s no furniture, nothing by the structure, floors and walls, unchanged.

Ach was wäre das Wolferl so entsetzt, sähe er, welch trostlose Text– und Wortansammlungen sich angesichts seines Lebens und Werkes hier über den wissbegierigen Touristen ergiessen.
Selten habe ich eine bedauernswertere Hommage an ein Genie erlebt, als die Ausstellung in diesem Haus.

2012 Review #31:
First of all, I want to just point out that there are technically two Mozart museums in Salzburg. There is the Mozart Wohnhaus on Makartplatz, which is where Mozart lived for a time, but there is also the Mozart Geburtshaus, where Mozart was born, on Getreidegasse. The two museums are related, and you can pay for admission to both (10 Euro for both, 7 euro for one). The two are about a 5 minute walk from one another. It seems silly to have a separate Unilocal listing for the Geburtshaus, though.
Anyway, my other major qualm with this museum is that all the other Unilocal reviews here made me want to throw up a little bit.
I honestly do not think these museums are very good places for those who are either complete musical novices, or complete Mozart fanboys, without musical knowledge. That sounds a litte haughty, but really, there is a lot of dense stuff here. The Geburtshaus is a little lighter, with Mozart’s childhood violin and clavichord, his bedroom, relatively accurate remodels of what the family kitchen and living accommodations would have looked like, etc. There is also the room where Mozart was born. On the website, they describe this as, «the famous ‘birth room’, in which Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart came into the world on January 27, 1756. Soft light and background music imbue the room with a special aura.» I would like to translate that for you: «the loft attic of an apartment where Mozart was born. We painted his profile on the wall and we creepily play „Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,“ which he did not write, on a constant loop, so that you feel you are entering a horror movie.» Nonetheless, unless you have a somewhat knowledgable background in classical music, it’s probably best to just stick with the Geburtshaus, especially if you have children with you. The whole thing could take 30 minutes or less if you needed it to, but could stretch up to an hour if you needed it to as well.
The Wohnhaus, where he spent some time growing up, is definitely full of a lot more information, and it is a lot to take in. If you know what you’re looking for, and if you speak German, then it’s great. You also need to read music. Otherwise, there isn’t a lot here for you. There are some dioramas that depict stage setups and the way the city and housing looked at the time, and there are some sketches from operas and such. But, there’s no in-​house string quartet serenading you at all times. There are rooms and rooms of manuscripts and scores in Mozart’s hand, which is really interesting, but mostly it’s correspondance between Leopold and Amadeus (Father/​son), and between Amadeus and Constanza (son/​wife). These are a lot of very dense writing in a foreign language on 300 year old paper. They translate some information and some letters, but only if the information is concise and essential. Otherwise none of it is translated, so again, hope you speak German, and hope you speak it the way they did in 1770.
Overall the Wohnhaus is not a museum for the musicological beginner. If you want things to be laid out in a beginning fashion, and you really are interested in the subject, it would be worth reading about beforehand. If you are interested more in the overall feel and history of the time, stick with the Geburtshaus. If you have an interest in Mozart’s craziness and eccentricities, then it is worth combing through some of the artifacts in the Wohnhaus, but best bring along your dictionary.

I went into this museum not knowing much about Mozart’s life/​family and left intrigued and wanting more. The museum was small but just enough to make one think and give you a little taste of this rather complicated family and man. Like many parts of Salzburg part of the original building was destroyed during the war but has been lovingly restored and the story was told in a concise and smart manner to inform but not bore the visitor. Perfect!

I found this house disappointing. The house was not decorated as a home but as a sparsely filled museum. The best thing there was a piano that Mozart used, but the rest of the articles in the museum seemed pretty random (e.g., books from the family library, Mozart’s father’s last letter, a score). The map of where Mozart traveled was interesting. In general, I didn’t learn anything new about Mozart and I thought that the exhibits were poorly curated.
The movie about Mozart should have had subtitles.

YAY Opera stuffs!
Pros: music fans (and cultured people in general) can tour this house and learn a lot about the man and his family. The house has a lot of original letters from /​to him and reading those was a highlight for me. Next to a McDonald’s. For reals. Wait, maybe that should be under «cons.»
Cons: Please someone get a fan circulating some air in that house. A little pricey for entrance but hey, it’s Old Town Salzburg, nomsane? Everything’s a little overpriced. Also, not wheelchair accessible and tough on folks who might have a hard time with stairs (though the stair case has a handrail.)

Mozart was a genius.
If you are at all interested in Mozart’s life and works, you must come here.
I hope it will be preserved for a long, long time. He was one of the most fascinating people to ever live, and it’s amazing whenever you’re able to see where an artist actually created art that will live on forever and be appreciated by so many.

I have appreciated Mozart since I first heard Eine kleine nachtmusik when I was a young teenager, from then on I was a total fan and then the movie Amadeus came out and stoked my interest even more. At that I could have only dreamed with ever visiting the place where he grew up.
As if visiting Salzburg wasn’t amazing enough, we got to tour this museum, learn a lot about Wolfgang’s life as a child and understand a bit how he developed into the genius he was. Also see up close instruments played by him and music written by him, it is just a fantastic and amazing cultural and historical experience.
When you are done, stock up on some good Mozartkugeln chocolates for the trip home.

My love affair with Mozart began in the metro in Paris as 16 strings played his music. I am not going to lie, being under my favorite city listening to this amazing composer’s music with the great acoustics that the Metro offers, I admit that I was literally moved to tears.
Being in Salzburg I had to see his home, seeing his life and personal items was one of the biggest treats I have ever experienced.
To this day, my favorite way to hear his music is on the DVD I purchased from Clasique Metropolitain under my magical city of Paris.

Just when you think you know everything about one of the greatest musicians in history there is more to learn. The museum of Mozart house where he grew up has been turned into a very detailed museum display with pianos that he either composed on or replicas of those that he owned, personal letters from the family records and even replica of shooting targets that Mozart designed himself and seemed bit risqué for the time!
The audio guide is included in the tour admission price, but if you get the Salzburg City Pass admission is included.
Each room of the former Mozart apartment is a different part of the museum, there is even a room where you can watch a video of his life and follow the route he toured through Europe as a child.
Very interesting and worth a visit!

La Maison d’Habitation de Mozart, appelée aussi «Tanzmeisterhaus» (Maison du Maître de danse), a été mentionnée pour la première fois en 1617. Jusqu’en 1685, elle était constituée de deux maisons. En 1711, un décret donna l’autorisation de donner des cours de danse aux nobles. En 1773, la famille Mozart emménagea dans sa nouvelle demeure sur la place qui s’appelait alors Hannibalplatz (aujourd’hui Makartplatz 8). Le vaste appartement offrait suffisamment de place pour rencontrer des amis et des musiciens. Emanuel Schikaneder (1751 – 1812), acteur, directeur de théâtre et librettiste de «la Flûte enchantée» fréquenta souvent ce domicile.
(Source: Tourismus Salzburg Gmbh —
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‘Mozatzts Wohnhaus’ is German for the place where Mozart used to live. it is a nice little museum wich basically shows the rooms of the apartment, some furniture and some pieces of the mozart family’s daily life. it is much more informative than the famous Mozats Geburtshaus opposite the river Salzach. Still is it pretty small and kinda superficial on the information side. It’s worht the entrance fee if you go early enough to spend some time and also check out the video show and those things. One voisit is definitely enough though.

This is the place where Mozart spent most of his life, where he gave his music lessons to naughty little rich girls, where he stayed up all night dancing and drinking coffee and where he primed his airguns and got ready for a bit of competitive target shooting with his mates. (He made a special target with a man exposing his bottom on it to put off his mates). And of course drinking Stiegl lager.
I liked this place better than the birth house, which is very crowded and touristy. This place is more serious, and has much better displays about the music, the music itself, a very, very, very long video installation detailing his travels all around europe as a child musician (he was essentially a gypsy) and how he played for the royal courts in all the countries he was in.
There are delightful old organs and keyboards that give you a real sense of the era, and the views are very nice too. The only downside is that maybe there is a little too much information given with each of the displays, so you spend most of your time reading.
Also the place was pretty badly bombed during world war 2, so what you walk round is kind of not quite original, but