Home to Georg Trakl before he left Salzburg to study pharmacy in Vienna, the Georg Trakl Memorial offers a compelling window into the poet—who died at just 27– and his inspirations. See some of the furnishings of his family home, view his letters, explore his emotive state of mind through his melancholic poems, and watch the roughly 45-minute German-language documentary about him.
Explore the museum via in-house guided German-language tours that run every weekday. If you don’t speak German, you can still gain a sense of Trakl’s early years from the museum and documentary, especially if you have researched his life online before visiting.
The Traklhaus is a must for poetry, literature, art, and history lovers.
The museum is inaccessible to people who use wheelchairs.
One-time admission is included with the Salzburg Card discount pass.
The museum is best enjoyed by German speakers, as the tours and documentaries are in German.
The Traklhaus is at 1a, Waagplatz near Mozartplatz in Salzburg Old Town. The building lies down a lane off Waagplatz and isn’t well signposted. 25, 170, and 160 buses run from Salzburg’s Hauptbahnhof train station to Salzburg Old City Hall (Rathaus), a 5-minute walk away, and frequent buses also run to Mozartsteg, a roughly 2-minute stroll from the door. Several parking garages are available on the Old Town’s outskirts.
1-hour museum tours begin at 2pm Monday through Friday; it’s best to arrive a little beforehand. Tickets are available from the museum ticket office, which is open from morning until late afternoon Monday–Friday. The museum closes for its annual summer break in August and on public holidays, including over Christmas and New Year.
One of Europe’s greatest expressionist poets, Georg Trakl’s life is defined by his mournful poems. Exposed to drugs in youth, he witnessed World War I’s horrors while serving as a medical officer and lapsed into a depression that led to his death in 1914. You can trace Trakl’s footsteps in Salzburg by following a trail of plaques engraved with his poems at places such as Mönschberg and the Mirabell Garden.
