Conferences focusing on themes of general interest or directed toward teachers, farmers, doctors, therapists, and other professionals are held at the center throughout the year.

[6] Begun in 1913 to house the annual summer theater events of the Anthroposophical Society,[7] it rapidly became the center of a small colony of spiritual seekers located in Dornach and based around Steiner.

[8] Numerous visual artists contributed to the building: architects created the unusual double-dome wooden structure over a curving concrete base, stained glass windows added color into the space, painters decorated the ceiling with motifs depicting the whole of human evolution, and sculptors carved huge column bases, capitals, and architraves with images of metamorphoses.

[4][9] Already during the construction, musicians, actors, and movement artists began performing a wide variety of pieces in a neighboring workshop.

The stained glass windows in the present building date from Steiner's time; the painted ceiling and sculptural columns are contemporary replications or reinterpretations of those in the First Goetheanum.

In a dedicated gallery, the building also houses a nine-meter-high wooden sculpture, The Representative of Humanity, by Edith Maryon and Rudolf Steiner.