Science & technology museums in Nuremberg

The DB Museum is a railway museum in Nuremberg. Important historical railway vehicles include parts of the royal train for the Bavarian king, Ludwig II and an original coal wagon from 1829, the oldest steam locomotive in Germany still preserved in its original state, the Nordgau (built in 1853). Fur

The Museum of Industrial Culture in Nuremberg is a museum of technology, culture and social history that documents the history of industrialization, focusing on examples of Nuremberg. The museum is housed in a hall of the former ironworks Julius Tafel (Tafelwerk) and covers around 6,000 m² of exhibi

The Museum of Communication is a museum in Nuremberg that is dedicated to communication, more specifically the the ways in which people communicate with each other. The museum contains four different exhibition rooms on sounds, images, texts, and internet. The collection that the Museum fur Kommunik

The Merks Motor Museum is a museum in Nuremberg that exhibits a private collection of shiny classic cars and motorcycles which are all made in Nuremberg.

The turmdersinne (Tower of the Senses) is an interactive museum/science center in Nuremberg. Visitors can try out various activities and experiments such as sensory stimuli and how things are processed on experimentation stations. In the turmdersinne even the perception of deception is made tangible

The Regiomontanus-Sternwarte Nürnberg is an astronomical observatory, aimed primarily at the public teaching of astronomy. It is located at the second highest point of the Nuremberg metropolitan area, the Rechenberg, in the St. Jobst district at about 338 meters. All the activities of the observator

The Handwerkerhäuser Kühnertsgasse are three listed former craft houses in Nuremberg, at Kühnertsgasse 18, 20 and 22. The oldest house number 22 was originally built in 1377 as a two-storey half-timbered house. The other two houses were built until 1434. The inhabitants rebuilt the houses several ti

The Hutmuseum Nürnbergg is a private museum in Nuremberg, which deals with the production and properties of hats. It is located in a former hatmaker's workshop in Sebalder Altstadt and is considered to be the smallest museum in Nuremberg. The traditional hat shop is displayed within the old shop int