Mozart's Birthplace and Residence tickets: €18 each, €25 for both, and why only the Mozarteum's own tickets work

💡 The Short Version: Mozart’s Birthplace and the Mozart Residence are €18 each, or €25 for both, and the combined ticket is valid for 48 hours. Only the Mozarteum’s own tickets are accepted: its webshop or the box office in either house. The museum prints in bold that tickets from third-party providers will not be accepted, so there is no GetYourGuide ticket to buy. Allow about an hour in each. The Birthplace has no step-free access; the Residence does. Both are open daily 9:00 to 17:30, and the Salzburg Card gets you in once. Prices are in euros. Or book a tour: the 2.5-hour Mozart and old town walkad passes both houses and is from €45 (GetYourGuide), and entry to the houses is not included.

Tickets and prices

Prices are the Mozarteum’s, from the Birthplace page and the Residence page. Anyone claiming a reduction shows a valid document.

• The combined ticket saves €11 on two adult tickets (€36). It is validated at the first house and valid for 48 hours, so the houses can go on two days.
• The admission fee does not include a guided tour. Group tours are booked in advance with the museum: €100 in German or €120 in English, French, Italian or Spanish for a class or up to 25 people, plus admission.
• Concertgoers get 15% off a museum ticket on the day of a Mozarteum concert and the day after, on showing the concert ticket. Museum visitors get 15% off a Mozarteum concert ticket the same day.
• At the box office the houses take Maestro, Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Union Pay, American Express and Diners Club cards.

Where to buy

Buy from the Mozarteum’s webshop or at the box office in the houses. The Mozarteum’s notice on both museum pages says that online tickets are sold only through its official webshop and that tickets bought elsewhere will not be accepted. Searches for Mozart’s Birthplace tickets return resale sites with the house’s name in the web address that are not the Mozarteum.

Tours worth paying for

The tours below pass the houses or play Mozart, and none includes an entry ticket for either house. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

Mozart and old town walking tour

From €45 · 2.5 hours · 4.2 stars from 1,146 reviews

Salzburg 2.5-Hour Walking Tour: Mozart, Old Town & Moread starts at Mirabell Palace, passes the Mozart Residence on Makartplatz, crosses the Marko-Feingold-Steg bridge and walks Getreidegasse past Mozart’s Birthplace. It ends with an optional extra half hour and a €4 lift ride up the Mönchsberg. You pay for the houses separately.

Mozart concert at Mirabell Palace

From €39 · 1.5 hours · 4.8 stars from 4,347 reviews

Salzburg: Mozart Concert at Mirabell Palacead is held in the Marble Hall, the former banqueting hall where Leopold Mozart and his children Wolfgang and Nannerl played. It runs for 1.5 hours with a 15-minute interval. Exchange the voucher for a ticket at the box office in front of the hall. Mozart concerts in Salzburg compares it with the fortress and dinner concerts.

Mozart dinner concert

From €85 · 2.5 hours · 4.7 stars from 1,000 reviews

Salzburg: Mozart Concert with Dinnerad is a three-course candlelit dinner with arias and duets from Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute, sung by the Amadeus Consort Salzburg in period costume. It is held in the Baroque Hall of St Peter Stiftskulinarium, on the first floor with no lift. Drinks are paid for on the spot.

What to see

The houses are on opposite sides of the Salzach: the Birthplace in the old town, the Residence in the new town near Mirabell.

Mozart’s Birthplace, the yellow house at Getreidegasse 9, seen from Hagenauerplatz. Photo: Andrew Bossi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5.

1. Mozart’s Birthplace, Getreidegasse 9. Mozart was born here on 27 January 1756, and the family lived on Getreidegasse for 17 years. The three-storey exhibition covers the home he grew up in, when he began making music, his friends and patrons, his family and his passion for opera. Texts accompany the exhibits on the walls, and there is a text guide for phones. Allow about an hour.
2. The Mozart Residence, Makartplatz 8. The former dancing-master’s house, the Tanzmeisterhaus, where the family lived from 1773 in an eight-room apartment on the second floor. Mozart lived here until the end of 1780. It was partly destroyed in the Second World War and reopened in 1996. Allow about an hour.

The order that works: the Birthplace first, then cross the river to the Residence, and finish in the Mirabell Gardens next door; the 48-hour ticket also lets you split them across two days. What to skip: nothing; either house is a one-hour stop, and the combined ticket is cheaper than two.

The Mozart Residence at Makartplatz 8, the former Tanzmeisterhaus. Photo: Perituss, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

Hours and practical information

• Addresses: Mozart’s Birthplace is at Getreidegasse 9, tel. +43 662 844 313; the Mozart Residence at Makartplatz 8, tel. +43 662 87 42 27 40.
• Access: the Birthplace has stairs and is not barrier-free. The Residence is step-free through the Theatergasse entrance.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: buying a ticket from a reseller, which the Mozarteum says it will not accept.

Day trippers from Munich and Vienna can fit both houses in a day. What to book in Salzburg has the closed days for every sight. Hohensalzburg Fortress is the other ticket most visits include, and is the Salzburg Card worth it? runs the sums with both Mozart houses. The old town walk passes the Birthplace, and Mirabell Palace and Gardens is beside the Residence, and the right bank walk goes on from it to the Kapuzinerberg. Salzburg walking tours compares the guided options. Free things to do in Salzburg has what costs nothing. For a bed, see where to stay in Salzburg.