Merchant's House, Patrician's Palatial Residence, Map Publishers, Museum - the City Museum Nuremberg at Fembo's House built between 1591 and 1596 at the foot of the Imperial Castle is many-faceted.
Nuremberg’s only surviving large late Renaissance merchant’s house has been serving as a municipal museum since 1953 and today invites you to embark on a fascinating journey through Nuremberg's magnificent history. Important stations over 950 years of eventful historical developments are brought to life through original rooms, room installations and numerous audio plays: from the first documentary mention of Nuremberg in 1050 up to the 21st century.
The Exhibition
The entertaining journey through time begins in the 4th upper story with the large wooden model of the Old Town. Visitors then pass through 26 rooms of the house and discover the diverse, ever more intriguing development of a large town. The exhibition forum with its changing presentations is the showcase for Nuremberg's history, art and culture.
Key facts:
- contains one of the most precise and true-to-detail city models in all of Germany, created in 1939
- Nuremberg's only remaining large merchant's house from the late Renaissance
- of all the historical homes in Nuremberg, the main section of the Fembo House is the only one to survive World War II intact
- since the war the Fembo House has served as city museum
City Museum at Fembo's House:
5 things, you should know about.- The City Museum of Nuremberg is located at Fembo's House. This was built 1591–1596 as the residence of the family of Philipp van Oyrl, a merchant from the Netherlands who became a citizen of Nuremberg in 1592.
- The City Museum Nuremberg at Fembo's House has its name from a later owner of the house, the publisher and book seller Georg Christoph Franz Fembo, who bought the building at the beginning of the 19th century.
- The City Museum Nuremberg is located in the only surviving Nuremberg merchant-family residence from the transitional time of the late Renaissance to the Baroque era.
- The city history museum was founded in 1953. Between 1997 and 2000, the museum was refurbished and given an updated exhibit.
- The main building of the City Museum Nuremberg is the only historical residence in Nuremberg which survived World War II almost intact.
The City Museum at Fembo's House now presents the almost 1,000 year old history of Nuremberg in 30 minutes.