Behaim's globe
The world's oldest surviving globe, made in 1492 before America was known — so it is not on it.
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With the highlights route: the museum links its famous pieces — the globe, the Dürers, the watches — into a signposted circuit of about two hours. After that, pick one wing to your taste: instruments, costume, arms, dolls' houses.
The toy, dolls'-house and instrument wings genuinely absorb them, and the sheer size is an adventure. Just do not attempt full coverage — two hours of chosen wings is the practical ceiling.
A sculptural avenue of thirty white pillars carved with the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in different languages — Arabic among them. Raised in 1993 before the museum deliberately: Nuremberg, a name tied to the Nazi trials, chose to tie it to rights instead.
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The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg is the largest museum of history and culture in the German-speaking world: over a million objects telling how people here lived from prehistory to now, tens of thousands of them on display in a vast building wrapped around a fourteenth-century monastery whose cloisters are still part of the route. Its most famous object is the "Erdapfel" — Martin Behaim's globe of 1492, the oldest surviving globe on earth, made before Columbus returned and therefore showing no America at all. Around it: works by Nuremberg's own Albrecht Dürer, the first pocket watches ever made, musical instruments, armour, costume and antique dolls' houses. It is too big to finish in one visit; the right approach is to pick a few wings — and the famous pieces are linked by a signposted short route.
The world's oldest surviving globe, made in 1492 before America was known — so it is not on it.
Paintings and prints by Albrecht Dürer in his own city — the greatest German Renaissance artist.
Fourteenth-century Carthusian cloisters turned into galleries — a building within the building.
Among the first portable watches ever made, Nuremberg work of the sixteenth century.
Kartäusergasse 1, 90402 Nuremberg