# Bachmuseum

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The Bachmuseum in Leipzig explores Johann Sebastian Bach’s life, family, music, and place within Baroque culture. It occupies the Bosehaus in the historic Thomaskirchhof.

The building dates to 1586 and received a major Baroque redesign between 1709 and 1711. Georg Heinrich Bose owned the house from 1710. The Bach and Bose families lived as neighbours and maintained a friendly relationship. Since 1985, the Bosehaus has housed both the Bachmuseum and Bach Archive.

Its symmetrical townhouse façade has a rusticated ground floor, three plastered storeys, dormers, and a two-storey oriel. The Bosehaus gained its Sommersaal in 1717. This Baroque festival hall includes a musician’s gallery that can close with a ceiling painting, creating unusual acoustic effects.

Historical clavichords and a small house-concert organ introduce instruments from Bach’s musical world. Interactive displays let visitors hear Bach’s music and watch videos about compositions and techniques. Exhibits also explain well-tempered tuning, Bach’s family, and the wider context of Baroque music. The nearby Thomaskirche adds another Leipzig location closely associated with Bach. Together, the Bosehaus architecture and museum collection present Leipzig’s Bach heritage through rooms, instruments, and sound.

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