Insights into the Collection
The collection of the Richard Wagner Museum was established in 1933, when the museum first opened. It comprises around 1,600 objects, including furnishings, letters, manuscripts, and documents relating to the museum’s history. Here you can explore a selection from the collection.
Official wedding portrait of Cosima and Richard Wagner
| Photograph by Fritz Luckhardt |
| Vienna, May 9, 1872 |
Dog Whip for Wagner’s “Russ”
| Gift from landlord Colonel Walther Am Rhyn |
Bronze Clock with a Minnesinger
| Gift from Ludwig II at Christmas 1864; later given by Wagner to the Lucerne landscape painter Josef Zelger in 1868 |
“Stillness and beautiful tranquility surround me. Wherever I turn from my house, I am surrounded by a truly wondrous world: I know of no more beautiful place in this world, nowhere that feels more like home than this.”
Richard Wagner on Tribschen, in a letter to Ludwig II dated April 29, 1866
| Gift from Camille Érard to Richard Wagner, 1858 |
| On permanent loan from the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth |
| Gift from Ludwig II to Richard Wagner |
| Date unknown |
| Oil painting by Franz von Lenbach, 1870s |
| Engraved by Alfred Krausse after a photograph |
“In the evening, a long walk through all of Tribschen. Filled with gratitude toward the divine for granting me such happiness here; everything here was beautiful, even the difficult moments.”
Cosima Wagner in her diary, April 28, 1872
Bible with Illustrations by Gustave Doré
| Gift from Richard Wagner to Pastor Tschudi, 1870 |
| Oil painting by Franz von Lenbach, 1891 |
