Mozarthaus Vienna

Mozart moved a great deal - some thirteen addresses in Vienna in ten years - and Domgasse 5 is the only one of his apartments that survives. He lived here from 1784 to 1787, in what was by his standards a large and expensive flat, and it was the most successful period of his life: the Haydn quartets, several piano concertos and The Marriage of Figaro were written in these rooms, which is why the building was long called the Figarohaus. The museum runs over four floors: the apartment itself on the first, with the original room layout, and two further floors covering Mozart's Vienna, the city's musical economy, his finances, freemasonry and the operas. There is very little original furniture - what you get is the space and the context rather than objects he touched.

What you actually see

• His only surviving Vienna flat - lived in from 1784 to 1787, the best years.
• Where Figaro was written - along with the Haydn quartets and concertos.
• Three floors of context - Mozart's Vienna, his money, his freemasonry, the operas.
• The original room plan - the apartment layout as he rented it.

When to go

All year. Two hours.

Honest expectations

Almost nothing in the apartment is his - expect context, not relics. It is small and crowded in season. The audio guide is essentially necessary to make sense of the display.

Nearby

Stephansdom is round the corner; the Graben and the Hofburg are close.