Long Night of Museums
Six in the evening until midnight, one ticket, and most of the city's collections open at once.
The next edition has not been announced yet
For six hours on one Saturday night in May the museums, galleries, archives and churches open together on a single ticket — the one night of the year when Weimar's short and staggered opening hours stop forcing you to choose.
The Bauhaus Museum and the Museum Neues Weimar run the full six hours, and so do Goethe's house and the Stadtschloss. The Anna Amalia Library opens twice over — the Rococo Hall with its Cranach exhibition, and the study centre alongside it. Schiller's house takes part on hours of its own.
The sensible approach is a route rather than a destination, and it is the earliest closing times that set it. The Parkhöhle, the tunnel under the park, shuts first at nine. The Liszt house goes to ten. The Goethe and Schiller Archive and the Wittumspalais run to eleven. Everything else is open until midnight, so the houses that close early are the ones to do first.
What makes the night worth planning for is not the price but its reach: a single admission covers most of the city's collections for the whole six hours, and there is a family ticket for anyone bringing children. For one evening the houses stop being separate destinations with separate tickets.
2–4 October 2026 · 2. Okt. 16–20 Uhr, 3. und 4. Okt. 10–20 Uhr
One weekend, 2–4 October 2026
The residence comes back after a long restoration — three days, free, and the one weekend of the decade to see it.
18 October 2026
One Sunday in October
Conservators open their workbenches — the part of a collection's life the public never sees.
30 April – 30 October 2026
Spring to late autumn
A library explaining itself, alphabetically, in the building where the work actually happens.
18 November 2026
Two days a year — International Women's Day and the Buß- und Bettag
Two days a year when the foundation's museums are free — one in March, one in November.
Organiser
Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Tickets
7 € for a single ticket; a family ticket is 12 € and covers two adults with any number of children under 16, who are admitted free in any case.
Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026
1811–1886 • composer • pianist • conductor
The Liszt house, the rooms he kept in Weimar, is on the route and closes early.
1472–1553 • painter • printmaker
The Cranach exhibition in the library's Rococo Hall is named as one of the night's draws.
Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1, 99423 Weimar
The modern end of a night that otherwise belongs to the classical houses — and a place on the route with no eighteenth century in it.
Frauenplan 1, 99423 Weimar
The house people queue for by day, walked through after dark instead.
Schillerstraße 12, 99423 Weimar
Schiller's house opens too, on the Schillerstraße, Goethe's on the Frauenplan — the two houses the whole town is built around, and easy to do in one evening.
Platz der Demokratie 1, 99423 Weimar
The library opens twice over: the Rococo Hall with its Cranach exhibition, and the study centre alongside it.
Burgplatz 4, 99423 Weimar
The residence is on the list for the night; it reopens from its long restoration on 2 October 2026.
Am Palais 3, 99423 Weimar
Anna Amalia's dowager palace, where the Round Table met — one of the houses that shuts before midnight.