The dolls' houses
Historic dolls' houses of astonishing detail, showing how real homes looked in their day.
Not at all, and adults often enjoy it more. Every generation finds its own childhood toys on the upper floor, and the older sections appeal to anyone who likes history and craftsmanship. But children do get a real play area as well.
Because the city was Europe's toy-making centre from the Middle Ages, thanks to its metal and wood craftsmen. The industry lasted for centuries, and the largest international toy fair is still held in Nuremberg every year.
An hour and a quarter for the four floors, two hours with children who want to stop and play. It is in the old town, minutes from the market square.
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The Nuremberg Toy Museum is among the best-known toy museums in the world, and its location is no accident: Nuremberg was Europe's centre of toy-making from the Middle Ages, and the largest international toy fair is still held here every year. The museum shows toys across the centuries in a historic four-storey building: old wooden dolls, dolls' houses detailed with astonishing precision, tin trains, clockwork toys, then the plastic toys and Lego of the twentieth century. What surprises most visitors is that adults often engage with it more than children, because each generation finds the toys of its own childhood.
Historic dolls' houses of astonishing detail, showing how real homes looked in their day.
Clockwork trains, cars and machines in tin — what Nuremberg was famous for.
Toys every generation of visitor recognises — which is why adults enjoy it so much.
A space upstairs where children actually play, after all the looking at what cannot be touched.
Karlstraße 13-15, 90403 Nürnberg