The Mendelssohn House has been preserved as the sole and private residence of author Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. It is of great historical and cultural importance. The house was built in 1844 in the late classicist style, and the museum was founded in honor of this brilliant German composer who was also a fine painter and active in the field of cultural and educational policy. The visitor can see this house as an original place from which many progressive ideas of European musical life and the world of thought came.