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Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum Gallery Guide VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The exhibits have been arranged in sections,
This museum, which was officially opened in ranging from prehistory to the Middle Ages, Practical Information
1852, was founded by a Franconian aristocrat and are located on the ground and first Kartäusergasse 1. Tel (0911) 133
named Hans von Aufsess. It houses a unique floors. Twentieth-century art is on 10. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun
(to 9pm Wed). Closed Shrove
the second floor and the toy
collection of antiquities from the German- collection is housed Tue, 24, 25, 31 Dec. &
speaking world. In 1945, towards the end of separately. ∑ gnm.de
World War II, the buildings that had originally
housed the museum were bombed. The
architecture of the modern building, which
was completed in 1993, cleverly incorporates First floor
the remaining fragments of a former
Carthusian abbey. Among the most valuable
items in the museum’s collection are works by Madonna with Child
Tilman Riemenschneider, Konrad Witz, Lucas Crowned by Angels
Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Altdorfer, Albrecht This picture is by Hans
Holbein the Elder (around
Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien. 1465–1524) who created
many festive altarpieces
using warm colours.
. Archangel (1516)
This enchanting wood-
carving of the archangel Torquetum
Raphaël is one of many Johannes Praetorius from
works produced by Nuremberg produced this engraved
Veit Stoss after his copper device in 1568, designed to
return from Cracow. measure the positions of the stars.

Cloisters

Former
Carthusian
church Library . Portrait of Michael
Wolgemut (1516)
Albrecht Dürer painted
this portrait of his
predecessor and master,
Wolgemut, 30 years after
commencing work at
his studio.

Key to Floorplan
Textiles and folk art
Pre-1800 decorative arts
Crafts and guilds
Ground floor Scientific instruments and
pharmaceutical history
Entrance to study Musical instruments and
Brooch from collections and library applied arts
Domagnano Pre-1700 everyday culture
This Ostrogothic buckle . Cover of the Middle Ages
from the 5th century AD, Codex Aureus . Schlüsselfeld Vessel Arms and armour, garden sculpture
shaped like an eagle, The richly ornamented This beautiful silver-gold Prehistory and early history
was discovered in the cover of the Codex Aureus, sailing ship, supported by a
late 19th century in also known as the Golden two-tailed mermaid, is an Archive, prints and drawings, coins
and medals
Domagnano, in San Marino. It Gospel Book of Echternach, ornamental table vessel made
probably belonged to a rich was produced in Trier in in 1503 by an unidentified Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment
Ostrogothic aristocrat. the 10th century. goldsmith from Nuremberg. Non-exhibition space
For hotels and restaurants in this area see pp496–7 and pp519–22

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