Visitors can explore the recreated study, extensive library and puppet theatre in this bourgeois central Frankfurt townhouse of Germany's most famous literary son. The museum adjacent to 17th-century Goethe's House has portraits of him by friends, including Caspar David Friedrich.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's father, the Imperial Councillor Johann Caspar Goethe, inherited the two attached half-timbered houses and completely remodelled them to create the epitome of a Rococo bourgeois dwelling. Unfortunately the entire house was destroyed during the Second World War, but has since been reconstructed.