Official review: “Schubert Birthplace” (Vienna)

LIVING HERE. Schubert grew up in this flat as a kid and was probably born in the same place, 1797.

LOCATION. The fastest way to the birthplace is to take the tram. Get to Canisiusgasse Station and walk south for twenty seconds. The house is to your left, with a characteristic purple-on-white “Vienna Museum” door sign.

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Multiple mysteries enshroud the spacious apartment.

Portraits. Paintings. Artifacts.

And you’re now on your own to find out how they’re to be linked to Schubert.

Find yourself surrounded by all these stuff each trying to tell its own story while you imagine what it’s like to be the twelfth child of a family that’s luckily appropriately well-off. And with a narrative lacking, and the cardboard descriptions are of little help either, and to add a little bit of suspense, for some reason – the cardboards are covered with wooden blocks. You’ll have to open them one by one to get a little clue with your own meaning-making.

Clip: “Schubert Birthplace” (Vienna)

The first two galleries show us a rough timeline of Schubert’s younger years. Yet the curating gets curiouser and curiouser – at the end of the corridor, paintings by Adalbert Stifter are on display. Why Stifter? Why not Friedrich Lieder or WA Rider (who have at least made some sketches / paintings of the composer)?

Sneak peak: It turns out the next Schubert attraction in town would solve all these puzzles at once.

Time is asset: save it for better with 25-min museum tours. Or find yourself in my novel, check out the photo of the day and finish it off with a secret prize.

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