Public and private guided tours

The Richard Wagner Museum offers a regular public guided tour programme. Please note: Due to the Corona pandemic, registration for all guided tours by the day before at the latest is require!

If no guided tour is currently taking place, we offer extensive commentaries explanations of properties, buildings, rooms and exhibits in the form of a media guide in several languages (currently German, English and French) and free of charge against a deposit at the museum box office.

The structural conditions of the rooms in Wahnfried House and Siegfried Wagner House whose original floor plan and layout have been preserved, lead relatively quickly to inconveniences caused by overcrowding when visited by larger groups of visitors or several groups at a time. Therefore we ask groups (even unaccompanied and under 10 persons) kindly to book in advance. Please understand that unannounced groups may be asked to visit the exhibition individually.

Museum box office

Advance booking of groups, booking of guided tours, shop
kasse@wagnermuseum.de
+49 921 75728-16

Current guided tours

All dates at a glance

Individual guided tours

We are happy to organise individual guided tours for you and your group. These last about 90 minutes and are limited to a maximum of 25 people.

Please note that only employees of the Richard Wagner Museum and guides of Bayreuth Marketing & Tourismus GmbH trained by the museum are allowed to conduct guided tours of the museum. Please contact the ticket counter staff of the Richard Wagner Museum for bookings.

Guided tours in German:
60 € plus 6 € admission per person
(8 € per person for fewer than 10 persons)


Guided tours in English or French:
80 € plus 6 € admission per person
(8 € per person for fewer than 10 persons)


Outside the regular opening hours of the museum a special opening fee will be added –
160 € on weekdays, 240 € on Sundays and holidays.

Richard Wagner Gartentreppe Familie

Guided tour with Curator

A guided tour through the permanent exhibition in the three buildings of the Richard Wagner Museum with a curator is a special highlight. With expert information about the newly- designed museum and exhibition exhibits, you will gain profound insights into the life, thoughts and work of Richard Wagner.

Every Tuesday at 2 p.m., a curator will guide you through Wahnfried House, Siegfried Wagner House and the new building in about 90 minutes.

Museum box office

Advance booking of groups, booking of guided tours, shop
kasse@wagnermuseum.de
+49 921 75728-16

When:
Every Tuesday at 2pm


Duration:
Approx. 90 minutes


Meeting point:
Museum ticket counter in the new building of the Richard Wagner Museum


Price:
3 € guided tour per person plus entrance fee


Participation:
min. 5 persons to max. 10 persons; please register by Sunday, 5 pm at the latest

Kuratorenführung im Obergeschoss von Haus Wahnfried © Nationalarchiv der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung, Bayreuth

Museum tour

Just the thing for the weekend: Every Sunday at 2pm, a public guided tour awaits visitors to the museum. Get an insight into Richard Wagner’s world, his life and work in Wahnfried House, immerse yourself in the history of the Festival in the new building and learn more about Wagner’s ideological history in Siegfried Wagner House. And if your thirst for knowledge is quenched after an hour and a half, how about a cup of coffee at Café Wahnfried to follow?

Museum box office

Advance booking of groups, booking of guided tours, shop
kasse@wagnermuseum.de
+49 921 75728-16

When:
Every Sunday at 2pm


Duration:
Approx. 90 minutes


Meeting point:
Museum ticket counter in the new building of the Richard Wagner Museum


Price:
3 € guided tour per person plus entrance fee


Participation:
min. 5 persons to max. 10 persons; please register by 5 p.m. the day before at the latest!

Museumsführung im Saal von Haus Wahnfried © Nationalarchiv der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung, Bayreuth

Guided tour with Director

The director’s tour offers a special experience: on the first Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. the Director of the Richard Wagner Museum, Dr. Sven Friedrich, opens the museum exclusively for you and guides you through the rooms of the three museum buildings.

Museum box office

Advance booking of groups, booking of guided tours, shop
kasse@wagnermuseum.de
+49 921 75728-16

When:
First Wednesday of every month at 6pm,
after regular opening hours


Duration:
Approx. 90 minutes


Meeting point:
Museum ticket counter in the new building of the Richard Wagner Museum


Price:
7 € guided tour per person plus entrance fee


Participation:
min. 5 persons to max. 10 persons; please register by 5 p.m. the day before at the latest!

Direktorenführung in der Halle von Haus Wahnfried © Nationalarchiv der Richard-Wagner-Stiftung, Bayreuth