Bach Museum Leipzig
 The Bach Museum in the Bose House |
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| place | Leipzig |
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| opening | March 21, 1985 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-853314 |
The Bach Museum Leipzig is a museum that deals with the life and work of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach . It is part of the Leipzig Bach Archive in the Bose House at the Thomaskirchhof .
Since opening in 1985, the museum has had 850,000 visitors. From 1987 to 2002, the musicologist Cornelia Krumbiegel headed the museum, which she had been involved in setting up since 1983.
From October 1999 to March 2000 the museum was closed for 6 months and equipped with modern technology. The exhibition area was expanded to 230 m².
Since reopening after renovation work in 2010, the museum has a thematically structured exhibition area of 450 m².
Web links
Commons : Bosehaus Leipzig - collection of images
- Bach Museum Leipzig - website of the museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ About the Bach Museum. Bach Museum Leipzig, accessed on January 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Kerstin Wiese became director of the Bach Museum Leipzig , nmz.de, October 29, 2002
- ↑ "Leipzig discovered the Bach theme a bit late," criticizes Cornelia Krumbiegel, who has been building the museum since 1983 and has been running it since 1987. Kreuzer , Moderne Zeiten Medien, 2000, p. 8 [1]
- ↑ More exhibition space, new showcases, larger selection of rare objects: Leipzig Bach Museum reopened , Hamburger Abendblatt, March 22, 2000
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 19.5 ″ N , 12 ° 22 ′ 20.3 ″ E