Permanent exhibition on Dresden Romanticism

How strongly Romanticism affected Dresden is summed up by this authentic place. Nine thematic rooms trace the lives of the Kügelgen family and their prominent guests.

The museum is furnished with numerous paintings, contemporary objects of bourgeois domestic culture and exhibits from the former Körnermuseum, which was destroyed in the war.
Museum treasures include the richly painted wooden ceilings and the recreated studio of the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen. The visitor's path through the sequence of rooms provides an insight into Dresden's Romantic period.
First, the family and friends of Christian Gottfried Körner are introduced, with a special tribute to his son Theodor Körner.
In the following, insights are provided into the lives and works of the thinkers and poets, the painters and musicians of the Romantic period, as well as other well-known personalities of the time. These include Novalis, Ludwig Tieck, the Schlegel brothers, Heinrich von Kleist, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Caspar David Friedrich, Philipp Otto Runge, Georg Friedrich Kersting, Johan Christian Dahl, Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Maria von Weber, Robert Schumann and Richard Wagner.
The final rooms are dedicated to the family and circle of friends of the former owner of the house, the painter Gerhard von Kügelgen.