# The Goethe National Museum opens in the Weimar house

Date: 1885

## The fact

On 28 August 1885, [Goethe](/people/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe)’s birthday, the Goethe National Museum opened in the Frauenplan house. Goethe had died in 1832.

## Context

House museums create public access and national cult. Cult costs sit on the 1871 reception row.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official archive/museum/agency pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Goethe National Museum (https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/goethe-national-museum/; Klassik Stiftung Weimar).

## Significance

A museum is not a privy-council minute.

A museum is not a privy-council minute.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: https://factrail.ai/people/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/846/
- https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/goethe-national-museum/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/go-nationalmuseum-1885