Inventory: Estate of Richard and Cosima Wagner.

Location: Wahnfried, Festspielhaus (festival theatre), Wahnfried.

Administrator: Wagner Family (up to 1973)
Richard Wagner Foundation (since 1973)

Management: 1932-1953: Dr Otto Strobel (*20.08.1895 +23.02.1953)
1953-1976: Gertrud Strobel (*20.03.1898 +11.06.1979)
1976-1993: Dr Manfred Eger (*17.09.1927) as scientific head of the Richard Wagner Foundation.
since 01.05.1993: Dr Sven Friedrich (*05.04.1963) as scientific head of the Richard Wagner Foundation.

History: Family archive, transferred in 1976 to the National Archive of the Richard Wagner Foundation, which was founded in 1973.

Inventory: Special library

Location: Wolzogen House, Lisztstr. 2

Administrator: Chancellery of the Reich, the town of Bayreuth

Management: Dr Otto Strobel, municipal librarian and archivist of Haus Wahnfried.
Wolfgang Wagner (in the interim 1952/53)

History: Initiated by Mayors Karl Keller and Dr Otto Schmidt on 16.3.1938 in agreement with Winifred Wagner, who arranged for Hitler to be sent an appropriate memorandum. The Chancellery of the Reich was petitioned by Winifred Wagner in order to save the Research Centre from the influence of Wächtler, the Nazi administrator of the district.
By order of the Führer on 22.5.1938, the opening took place on 13.2.1939.
It was closed in April 1945.
19.06.1952: The Bavarian Ministry of Finance handed the property over to the city council of Bayreuth for the purpose of creating a Richard Wagner Archive.
City council resolution of 11.05.52: Plan to amalgamate RWR and RWM; temporary storage at the Festspielhaus and interim management by Wolfgang Wagner.
03.07.1952: Taking over of collection into RWA at the Festspielhaus by Dr Otto Strobel.
1953: Return of collection and integration thereof into the municipally run RWM.

Inventory: estate of C.F. Glasenapp (+ 1915 in Riga), at a later stage the Wolzogen and Bartsch Library, Bales Collection (Bayreuth freeman 1928).

Location: 1924-1927: Glasenapp memorial room with added Richard Wagner Hall, initially located in H. Wallem's private residence Friedrichstr. 19.
1.8.1927: Purchase of RWM by the town of Bayreuth and relocation to the "Ladies' Wing" of the Neues Schloß.
1976: Relocation to the Richard Wagner Museum exhibition at Haus Wahnfried and the National Archive of the Richard Wagner Foundation
Administration: 1976-1992 at Chamberlain House, Wahnfriedstr. 1 (currently the municipal department of cultural affairs).
In the Siegfried Wagner House since 1993.

Administrator: Town of Bayreuth (since 1927)

Management: 1924-1953: Ms Helena Wallem (*28.06.1873 +27.02.1953), scholar and secretary of C.F. Glasenapp, moved to Bayreuth in 1921.
1953-1973: Dr Joachim Bergfeld (*15.11.1906 +6.11.1988)
1973-1993: Dr Manfred Eger (from 1.3.)
since 1993: Dr Sven Friedrich (from 1.5.)

History: In 1934 Helena Wallem - mainly because of Dr Otto Strobel's successful exhibition of "Genie am Werk (a genius at work)", which contains autographic material from the Wahnfried Archive - begins to enforce provisions contained in the will to deny Dr Strobel access to the RWM. This conflict was aggravated by the new production of "Parsifal". Winifred Wagner and Dr Otto Strobel encounter strong opposition by Daniela Thode, Eva Chamberlain and Helena Wallem.
20.1.35: Eva Chamberlain hands over letters and diaries of Cosima to meet the provisions and conditions imposed by the stipulations of the will (Eva Chamberlain passes away on 26.5.1942). Chamberlain legacy (including a library with 12,500 volumes) currently under the administration of and part of the Richard Wagner Museum / National Archive in the 2nd floor of Chamberlain House.
1976: The RWM in the Neues Schloß is dissolved and the contents transferred to the Richard Wagner Museum and library (11,000 volumes), on loan by the city.

Inventory: Richard Wagner Museum with National Archive and Research Centre

Location: Bayreuth City Hall / Wahnfried

Administrator: Public corporate body

Management: Foundation board, foundation council
Dr Manfred Eger, scientific head 1976-1993
Dr Sven Friedrich, scientific head since 1993

History: The idea for the foundation was first raised by Siegfried Wagner in 1914 (interview with the München-Augsburger Abendzeitung, quoted in Karbaum, II, p. 57).
Founded in 1973.
After the merger of RWM and RWA (Wahnfried Archive): "National Archive and Research Centre of the Richard Wagner Foundation Bayreuth" Administrator of the Richard Wagner Museum.

Inventory: RWM and RWA

Location: Haus Wahnfried

Administrator: Richard Wagner Foundation
Town of Bayreuth

Management: 1976-1993: Dr Manfred Eger
since 1.5.1993: Dr Sven Friedrich

History: 1973: Haus Wahnfried, which was partially destroyed in the war, is donated to the town of Bayreuth by Winifred and Wolfgang Wagner on establishment of the foundation.
Reconstruction of the house, true to the original, up until 1976 (opening on the 24.7.).

Inventory: Dr Phillip Hausser Collection, Bayreuth

Location: Chamberlain House, Wahnfriedstr. 1

Administrator: Town of Bayreuth

Management: 1980-1993: Dr Manfred Eger
since 1.5.93: Dr Sven Friedrich

History: Opening 1980
Expanded by one room in 1994

Inventory: Former collection of Ernst Burger and National Archive loans.

Location: House in which Franz Liszt stayed up to his death, Wahnfriedstr. 9

Administrator: Town of Bayreuth

Management: Dr Sven Friedrich

History: In 1988 the town of Bayreuth purchases the Liszt collection of Ernst Burger
Opening 22.10.1993