The Transportation Museum (Verkehrsmuseum) in Nürnberg is now officially called the DB-Museum because it belongs to the German Railway System (DB = Deutsche Bahn). It documents the history of the railroads in Germany from the beginning (which was right here, since the first line was between Nürnberg and Fürth in Read More …
This is the courthouse where the “Nuremberg Trial” was held from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946. On trial were 21 high-ranking representatives of the Nazi regime, charged with conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. At the end of this marathon trial twelve defendants were Read More …
There are several worthwhile museums in Nürnberg, but the outstanding one in my opinion is the Documentation Centre (Doku-Zentrum) on the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds. This is an area on the outskirts of Nürnberg where the Nazi (National Socialist) party held huge propaganda rallies in 1927 and 1929, before Read More …
This museum promises “a fresh look” at “950 years of city history.” It was closed for three years in the late 1990s, and reopened in the year 2000 with “a new concept” and “26 completely redesigned museum rooms, the new exhibition forum and the large Nuremberg multivision show NORICAMA.” Like Read More …
On a slight hill at the northern edge of Nürnberg’s Old Town you can see the Emperor’s Castle (Kaiserburg), which has been there since at least the year 1050 and was the emperor’s residence — when he happened to be in town. In those days the emperor (of the so-called Read More …
This house (the one in the center of the photo) is now a museum showing the reconstructed living and working quarters of the great artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). There are no original Dürer paintings here, but a number of copies and reproductions, and a lot of information about his life Read More …
One of the many departments of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Germanic National Museum) in Nürnberg is their collection of six hundred musical instruments from various historical periods. Many of these are keyboard instruments of all sorts, but the strings and woodwinds are also well represented. If you think you have finally Read More …
In case you are wondering why there is a car with its back end jacked up in front of the opera house in this photo, rest assured that nobody is lying under the car trying to fix it. The car is in fact on display because its manufacturer is one Read More …