Bayreuth during the month-long Richard Wagner Festival, commonly known as the Bayreuth Festival. The Festival draws thousands each year, and has persistently been sold out since its inauguration in 1876. Currently, waiting lists for tickets can stretch for 10 years or more. Owing to Wagner's relationship with the then unknown philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the first Bayreuth festival is cited as a key turning point in Nietzsche's philosophical development. Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence —an event which led him to
Kunstmuseum Bayreuth II the old town hall was used as town hall again from 1945. With the construction of the modern town hall, opened in 1972, the building served as state police department. After Mayor won the foundation "Dr. Helmut and Constanze Meyer Kunststiftung" for Bayreuth, the building was chosen as the seat for the Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, opened in December 1999. Kunstmuseum Bayreuth The Kunstmuseum Bayreuth is a museum for modern art, opened in 1999 in Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany. The historic rooms of the baroque former town hall present exhibitions with contemporary art and classical modern art. The offer includes guided tours,