City Museum Fembohaus
Topics - City Model
- The "Sounding City Model": impressive production with light and sound.
The "Sounding City Model" - the Scenic Audio Production
Visitors are taken by lift to the converted top floor, the starting point of their short, exciting time travel through Nuremberg's history.
Visitors may enjoy the "Sounding City Model". The centre of a darkened room is taken up by the linden wood model of the Old Town of Nuremberg made in 1939 on a scale of 1 : 500. The model fashioned by four master wood carvers is among Germany's most precise and detailed city models. After four years of work, it was completed in 1939, showing Nuremberg as a late mediaeval city, before the destruction suffered during World War II.
Selected buildings, streets and squares are presented here in a light and sound production.
- Detail of the city model: St. Lawrence's Church.
The "Sounding City Model" - the Programme
The programme introduces Nuremberg's Old town in 12 stations and 12 minutes: including the Imperial Castle, St. Lawrence's Church, the Wine Store, the Peller House, the Jewish quarter, the town wall, the Fembohaus, the Museumsbrücke and the "Sieben Zeilen" (seven rows of houses).
On their way through the Fembohaus, visitors will encounter again some of the buildings seen on this virtual city tour.
When the programme is finished, the room lights come on again and the blinds open, allowing visitors a panoramic view of Nuremberg's Old Town. Visitors then also have the opportunity to study the model more closely and compare this bird's eye view with today's streets in reality.
Programme
Sounding City Model
12 minutes
German/ English
