The Romantikerhaus Jena, in the former home of the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, is today a literary museum on Jena's early Romanticism.

Here, not only the legendary Romantic meeting of 1799 is remembered, but also the outstanding cultural charisma of Jena around 1800 is shown. The interaction of poetry, philosophy, art and natural science founded a new aesthetic here that is still effective today.

The exhibition depicts the intellectual climate of those years (roughly from 1785 to 1800) in which early Romanticism flourished as a literary-philosophical current and, at times, even as a shared way of life.