The Robert-Schumann-Haus has a large trove of manuscripts, letters, portraits, pianos and belongings of Robert Schumann and his wife, Clara Wieck who was one of the 19th century’s foremost piano virtuosos.

The portraits of Robert's father, August, and his mother, Christiane, first caught his eyes. Robert's parents moved into this house from a small village 30km away from Zwickau three years before Robert was born. August then started a bookstore with his brother.

Robert Schumann’s leather bookcase that his father gave him.

It is a briefcase Robert Schumann used when he was a law student at Heidelberg University for 16 months from May 1829 to September 1830.

There were several upright and grand pianos exhibited in the house, one of which grand pianos was made by Clara Wieck’s cousin, Wilhelm Wieck.

It was a grand piano, but with key pedals like an organ. I had not played a piano like this, nor had I even played an instrument like it, of course, but since visitors were allowed to experience play this pedal grand piano, I nervously and slowly touched and pressed a few keys and started playing Schumann's "Träumerei." I couldn’t believe that I was playing Schumann's "Träumerei" in his own birth house, using the piano that Clara Wieck’s cousin built. While I was playing it, I felt like Robert Schumann was listening to me playing it from somewhere in this room.

This was one of the most memorable moments in this travel.