Mozart's Birthplace

Mozart's Birthplace

Mozart's Birthplace
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The birthplace of the famous composer displays numerous musical artifacts from his early childhood.
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  • KBD87
    Arkansas1,338 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    Good for Mozart fans
    This was at the top of our to do list for us in Salzburg. It is amazing being in Mozart’s home. One can just let their imagination run wild. There are some items to see and a lot of reading to do. If you are a big fan or even a casual fan you will enjoy it. If you are not a fan I think you would enjoy other activities more.
    Visited November 2023
    Travelled as a couple
    Written November 9, 2023
  • Doyle-Schepens
    Belgium237 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Walking in Mozart's footsteps
    This was one of the places my husband and I, together with friends definitely wanted to see while in Salzburg. Although not very big it was certainly interesting. It gave us an insight into the life of Mozart and his family. For us it was very enriching. For all Mozart fans this is a must!
    Visited November 2023
    Travelled as a couple
    Written December 6, 2023
  • Ginges_revenge
    Brisbane, Australia5,858 contributions
    3.0 of 5 bubbles
    Where he was born but a boring visit with not much substance.
    Its right on the main thoroughfare and even had a supermarket underneath with his name on it. The building itself was nice. You need to walk up the stairs to get to the house. Apart from a few things to see and the actual room where Mozart was born, it was fairly bland and not really worth seeing. Not much worth seeing.
    Visited March 2023
    Travelled as a couple
    Written December 10, 2023
  • Kirsten S
    Chichester, United Kingdom5 contributions
    3.0 of 5 bubbles
    A House without Music for a musical prodigy.
    A must for any musician. There is not much to see except a flat without any furniture, Mozart's first violin and a harpsichord, and a couple of versions of his father's violin primer in different languages. That was a little unexpected. Pictures and info on the family along the walls. The Mozart collection is in the Mozarteum, so everything connected to Mozart exist elsewhere. The Vienna House where he died is similar. However, the house gives you an understanding of the rented flat market in Austria at the time, so very different to anywhere else in Europe with its layout of buildings. There is an app which you can download, and I enjoyed listening to its audio tour after the visit to relive it. The final room has miniature stage sets of some of the operas. Two stars deducted for lack of background music. A different piece/ genre in each room would be nice.
    Visited December 2023
    Travelled as a couple
    Written December 26, 2023
  • andy m
    1 contribution
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Mozarts birth place...Salzburg
    For a Mozart fan this is "the" must do. Lots of original letters, instruments and artifacts etc, but to stand in the room where he was born was an ethereal experience. It really got me in the feels. The most beautiful city and especially in the Winter when the snow lies. Don't forget to go up Untersberg mountain on the cable car too but this house was just amazing. It was as beautiful as standing at his grave in Vienna.
    Visited January 2023
    Travelled as a couple
    Written December 27, 2023
  • elawson
    632 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    Go early, the crowds are thick!
    It's a surprisingly large house but the there's tons of people going through the same areas. The English version does a good job of balancing Salzburg's obsession with Mozart but not ignoring his foibles. (His sister had some disparaging remarks about his looks which were funny.) My kids (all teens) really liked this stop so I was pleasantly surprised.
    Visited December 2023
    Travelled with family
    Written January 5, 2024
  • Travel with Sean
    Madison, Wisconsin536 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    Only Yellow Building Around
    Wofgang Amadeus Mozart was born in this house on January 27, 1765. Upstairs, on the third floor, was the Mozart family apartment. Today, Mozart's Birthplace operates as a museum administered by the International Mozarteum Foundation. The museum was established here in 1880, and offers visitors a glimpse into the life of the Mozart family. Visitors can explore the various rooms where the Mozart family lived. Guided tours are available for those who want to learn more about the museum's exhibits and Mozart's legacy.
    Visited September 2023
    Travelled as a couple
    Written May 5, 2024
  • njcavalier
    Chatham, New Jersey423 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Fascinating birthplace museum in Salzburg!
    The Mozart Birthplace is a must-see on any visit to Salzburg. The museum’s collection of Mozart memorabilia and artifacts is fascinating, and the chance to stand in the room where the great composer was born in 1756 is worth the price of admission. On display in the birth room is Mozart’s childhood violin, and other rooms are filled with instruments, furnishings, manuscripts and art work reflecting the amazing life that began in the Mozart family’s apartment. If you visit the historic city of Salzburg, make the time to visit this important, beautifully curated museum.
    Visited April 2024
    Travelled as a couple
    Written May 21, 2024
  • Jo from Tasmania
    Hobart, Australia16 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    Certainly worth visiting in Salzburg
    To be in the house that was the home of the Mozart family and to stand in the very room where Wolfgang was born in January 1756 is quite a thing. The house museum has plenty of exhibits to trace and track the life of the Mozart family. It’s located close to other attractions and the other Mozart Museum, across the river and only about 15 minutes’ walk away, is also worth visiting. TIP: Take your earphones or AirPods with you so you can make use of the audio podcasts during your visit.
    Visited May 2024
    Travelled as a couple
    Written May 23, 2024
  • David B
    El Barco de Avila, Spain704 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Historic Birthplace Museum
    Salzburg is a magnificent city, and Mozart´s Birthplace is a fine place to visit there. The house rises over several floors and contains memorabilia of the life of Mozart and his family and extensive details of Mozart´s life as well as recreated interiors to illustrate the life of the musician. You can spend a considerable amount of time here.
    Visited June 2024
    Travelled as a couple
    Written June 18, 2024
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Koen & Myriam
The Hague, The Netherlands152 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2021 • Family
Was included in the Salzburg Card, but I don't know if it is worth the €12 entry if you are not a Mozart fan/expert. You are guided through the house, where you can find mostly paper artifacts and paintings, not only of Mozart but also of his father and his father. A piano here and there, the room where he was born, hair that is Mozart's - but one isn't really sure. The last rooms are about the archbishop and depictions of opera setups, not hard core Mozart, looks like they had to fill up the rooms. Tomorrow we are going to see the Mozart living house...
Written August 4, 2021
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jon42161
Sydney, Australia10 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Jan 2020 • Family
Visited on Sunday 5th of Jan 2020 at around 4:30pm. Terrible experience, museum itself had a few interesting artifacts but wasn't worth the steep price. Worst of all was the staff at the ticket office and outside the stairs into the museum, who were extremely rude and completely unprofessional. Made the experience horrible for me
Written January 7, 2020
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Topermoray
Christchurch, New Zealand22 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2020 • Family
We visited today and the place was completely over crowded. It was not possible to maintain the social distance due to over crowding inside. They had a fan so if someone did have COVID-19 it would have been blown onto everyone in the room.
A number of people were complaining when we were leaving about the situation.
Stay away until it’s safe to return.
Written August 4, 2020
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Jason F
London, UK166 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2023 • Couples
Afraid that apart from the fame of this place, it's really not worth visiting. There is some information on Mozart's life but so much more could be done here (for example apart from one tiny computer room you can't hear any of his music - not clear why there wouldn't be different Mozart music playing in each room?) The audio guide is useless. Firstly the WiFi doesn't work, so having to download their app on my mobile data then an additional 200 MB of data before you can use the app. The app is terribly designed where it is supposed to activate automatically when you hold up the phone to your ear. This only intermittently works making it near impossible to use the guide. That's 10+ mins wasted at the entrance just trying to set up the audio to no avail. No clear reason why they can't just provide a physical audio guide like many of the other attractions in Austria.
Written April 19, 2023
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srelei
Portland, OR38 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2019
This is where Mozart was born and where he spent much of his early years (when he wasn't traveling far-off with his father). It has to do more with his life and era than his music. It is interesting in knowing more about his development as a person as well as a composer. Apparently his apartment building was shared with numerous other families. There were exhibits also of his early instruments and manuscripts. I wish there was more about his music, although a CD of his Piano Concerto #21 (one of my favorites) with period instruments was playing. Mozart's birthday was the other day (January 27, 1756), and as I celebrated his birthday (listening to his music), I remebered fondly of visit his home.
Written February 2, 2020
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Robert R
Skipton, UK240 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2020 • Couples
When in Salzburg you have to do Mozart. We visited the Wohnhaus yesterday which was a big disappointment. Today we went to his Birthplace, better, but again, really spartan.
Basically it is descriptions on walls, cases with letters/manuscripts etc but nothing to his time, place or lifestyle.
It is a shame that so much of someone so famous has been lost.
Unfortunately there is no attachment to the real/personal life of Mozart, only the celebrity.
Written February 25, 2020
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Laila S
Nairobi, Kenya198 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2022
Walking in his family's footsteps, reading through anecdotes of his early years, his sister and his father and enjoying early pianos and a violin display, all in all were a short (1.30 hour) but inspiring visit. The museum gets really crowded in high season so it's not super hygienic in terms of COVID as ventilation in such old days architecture was not pandemic friendly. We had our masks and hoped for the best.
Written January 10, 2023
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Paul M
Downpatrick, UK73 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2020 • Couples
A mini museum in Mozarts birth home. Lots to read about him and his family. You will not see rooms like bedrooms or living rooms they just aren't there, think I seen a small kitchen area with little in it. However lots of information, pictures and manuscripts.
Written February 27, 2020
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midwesterner5
Province of Tarragona, Spain137 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Sept 2022 • Couples
Do go. Ignore the reviews here that characterize the museum as boring for the average person.

You can skip downloading the available app as you enter. Scarcely anyone uses it inside because there is much info on the walls, and also informative tags in the display cases. We were under the impression we'd have to rely on the audio from the app -- and really you'd want headphones to use it.

Let's say you don't care about music before 1950. You're getting to see a building built hundreds of years ago, inside, walking on the same flooring in the corridors and stairs, seeing door hardware and doorways that have held up for centuries.

You get to see how a middle class family lived in 1760, what was in their kitchen, how big the bedroom for four was, etc.

It's also an art museum, with various portraits of the extended family and of course the famous one. The. museum is not for those uninterested in history.

Why are there no hourly tours? It's easy to guess. By the time we left there were about 80 in the eight rooms. Maybe 200 had gone through in the two hours we were there, people taking 45 to 120 minutes.

So if some stay away due to unobjective reviews, okay. But for yourself, consider a visit. Go early if possible.
Written September 24, 2022
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JM-IM
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK194 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2023
We enjoyed our visit here, even though some say there's not much to see. Its quite atmospheric and there's a lot of information giving an insight into the life of Mozart and his family. Musical instruments which Mozart played are on show. The outside of the house is painted bright yellow, and, surprisingly, there's a Spar shop on the ground floor! We saved a few Euros by buying a joint ticket to see the birthplace and the Mozart Residence - the Mozart Wohnhaus - which is also worth a visit.
Written March 8, 2023
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