General Information
- All municipal museums at a glance.
What are nuremberg municipal museums?
nuremberg municipal museums is the association of all Nuremberg museums and tourist attractions managed by the City of Nuremberg.
Since 1994, this has included Albrecht Dürer's House, the City Museum Fembohaus with the Noricama multivision show, the Toy Museum, the Museum Tucher Mansion with the Hirsvogel Hall and the Renaissance Garden, the Museum for Industrial Culture including the Motorcycle Department and the School Museum, the Graphic Art Collection, the Department for Painting and Sculptures and the Mediaeval Dungeons underneath the City Hall, the Historic Art Shelter in the hill below the Castle and the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds.
- The reconstruction of the Hirsvogel Hall opened in the garden of the Museum Tucher Mansion in 2000.
Taken together, all departments of nuremberg municipal museums form one large, decentralised city museum.
Between 1996 and 2000, in just five years, all museums were given an individual new concept and were re-designed. New institutions established in 2000 included the Hirsvogel Hall within the gardens of the Museum Tucher Mansion, the Historical Art Shelter in the castle hill, and in 2001 the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds which was an initiative of Nuremberg Municipal Museums. Currently, a new information and memorial site, the "Memorium Nuremberg Trials" is being constructed in the historical location of Court Room 600 in Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court, formerly the venue of the "Nuremberg Trials", to be opened in late 2010.
The network of municipal museums with its 8 museums, 2 collections and 2 historical sites represents milestones in the city's history, and with over 500,000 visitors per year is one of the most important municipal cultural institutions in the entire Federal Republic.
- Museum Theatre "Fine Company" in the Museum Tucher Mansion.
Museum Theatre
Since summer 2003, specially written and lovingly produced plays provide visitors with a vivid introduction to Nuremberg's history.
During the winter months, three ladies will entertain visitors with gossip and scandalous stories from the Renaissance in the amusing play "Fine Company. Scandalous (hi)stories from Nuremberg's Golden Age", in the Museum Tucher Mansion. And from May 2008, love stories from the times of Albrecht Dürer have been told in Albrecht Dürer's House all year round, in the dashing "historical" called "An Honourable House".
Please note:
All museum theatre plays are performed in German only!
