Literaturmuseum im Klopstockhaus

About the museum

The house on Quedlinburg's Schlossberg was built around 1560 and is one of the many half-timbered monuments of the World Heritage town. The poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was born here in 1724. As early as 1899, the town set up its first museum in the house, which is still dedicated to the life and work of the poet.

Klopstock expanded the poetic language and versification of his time. His epic "Der Messias" (The Messiah) as well as his odes, hymns and songs are regarded as a turning point on which classical German literature could build.

A newly designed part of the permanent exhibition asks how the human body was thought about in the eighteenth century. Alongside Klopstock, the sports educator Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths and Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, Germany's first woman to earn a medical doctorate, are at the center. Interactive stations and media show how literacy and paper shaped the "paper age".

Highlights

• Birthplace of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, built around 1560
• First museum of the town of Quedlinburg (since 1899)
• Exhibition room on Dorothea Christiane Erxleben, Germany's first woman to earn a medical doctorate
• Newly designed exhibition on the body and media in the Enlightenment

Permanent exhibitions

• Wie der Körper zur Sprache kommt – Newly designed part of the permanent exhibition on Klopstock, GutsMuths and Erxleben and the eighteenth-century debates about the body, with interactive stations on the "paper age".
• Dorothea Christiane Erxleben – One exhibition room honors the Quedlinburg woman who was the first in Germany to earn a doctorate in medicine.

Founded

1899

Operated by

Städtische Museen der Welterbestadt Quedlinburg

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Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible: not available
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The museum is not barrier-free.

Kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

Museum education projects for school classes from first grade, and for daycare centers on request; children and young people up to age 17 pay no admission.

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