Industrial & heritage museums in Nuremberg

The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is the largest museum of cultural history in Germany, located in Nuremberg. The museum holds and exhibits a large collection of items related to German culture and art from prehistoric times to the present day. The collection consists of around 1,3 million objects of

The Nuremberg Toy Museum (Lydia Bayer Museum or Nürnberger Spielzeugmuseum) is a municipal museum in Nuremberg that depicts the cultural history of toys from antiquity to the present. The museum in Nuremberg is considered to be one of the most well known toy museums in the world. The collection that

The DB Museum is a railway museum in Nuremberg. Important historical railway vehicles include parts of the royal train for the Bavarian king, Ludwig II and an original coal wagon from 1829, the oldest steam locomotive in Germany still preserved in its original state, the Nordgau (built in 1853). Fur

The Museum of Industrial Culture in Nuremberg is a museum of technology, culture and social history that documents the history of industrialization, focusing on examples of Nuremberg. The museum is housed in a hall of the former ironworks Julius Tafel (Tafelwerk) and covers around 6,000 m² of exhibi

The Museum of Communication is a museum in Nuremberg that is dedicated to communication, more specifically the the ways in which people communicate with each other. The museum contains four different exhibition rooms on sounds, images, texts, and internet. The collection that the Museum fur Kommunik

The Handwerkerhäuser Kühnertsgasse are three listed former craft houses in Nuremberg, at Kühnertsgasse 18, 20 and 22. The oldest house number 22 was originally built in 1377 as a two-storey half-timbered house. The other two houses were built until 1434. The inhabitants rebuilt the houses several ti

The Hutmuseum Nürnbergg is a private museum in Nuremberg, which deals with the production and properties of hats. It is located in a former hatmaker's workshop in Sebalder Altstadt and is considered to be the smallest museum in Nuremberg. The traditional hat shop is displayed within the old shop int