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Hi, I hope to be in Nuremburg next year for a few days, i know the usual German history of this area, but does someone know the art museums? Taking son who teaches Art History and want to get him more involved in trip. Durer house is there, right? Thanks. Sue

I'm rather confused. What do you mean when saying you "know the usual German history of this area"? And if you know all the stuff why aren't you aware of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum?

I meant the WW II parade grounds, and Nurenburg trial courts etc. I know there are tours of this. Tell me about the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, and the Durer house please. I am familiar with Albrect Durer and would love to see the house. Any other suggestions?

Sue -
If you haven't visited the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds - I highly recommend you do so. Five euro per person when we were there in 2016 - you'll need many hours if you plan to cover it all. I was hesitant to go, but it was an eye-opener.

Can't help with art. We spent five nights in Nuremburg - you might get a few ideas here, or not. Scroll way, way, down, around page four I think.

https://www.fodors.com/community/eur...-here-1161958/

Besides Parade Grounds area which I found mermerizing I remember most that Uber famous Bratwurst House in town center where we ate the famous local Weiner Nurnberg is famous for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bratwu..._N%C3%BCrnberg

Maybe after a day of art museumeing!

Albrecht Durer's house and the gift shop across the street are not to be missed. There is a modern art museum there, the Imperial Castle. St Lorenz is my favourite place to visit. It was rebuilt but you can see where the new and old meet down to the sculptures. St Sebald also.

thanks for the responses. I've been in Nuremburg for a very brief stay and did see the parade grounds. Hope to have a bit more time and would like to definitely see the documentation center and the Durer house, son would like the Modern Art museum. Sue

German history is a lot more than those 12 years that "the usual tourist" sadly limits it to...

Germanisches Nationalmuseum is a top-class museum for art and artisans' works from Nuremberg's great times in the late middle ages and renaissance era, as a free imperial city, as one of the two wealthiest and most influential cities in the whole empire. A "must" for your son.

Art works from those times can also be found in abundance in the two main churches, St Lorenz and St Sebald.

If you are interested in the history of the city, the city museum Fembohaus is highly recommended.

My personal off-the-beaten-path recommendation: Johannisfriedhof, the historical cemetery outside the old town where Nuremberg's V. I. P.'s have been buried since the 16th century. It's overgrown with blooming rose bushes. A firend of mine once said, "If paradise looks like this, I'm not afraid of dying."

And **gently whispering** please note the difference between the letters E and U, it's Nuremberg not -burg.

Well, Sue, what was bothering me in your initial question was your poorly worded equation of German history with the Third Reich. If you want to be very popular in Nuremberg, just run around and tell everybody that you've seen the main attraction, the Nazi rallye grounds.

Anyway you should check out the following pages
Nuremberg Municipal Museums
https://www.gnm.de/en/

The main sights for art lovers are as quokka has already pointed out, the two main churches and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. The churches are basically frozen in time since the reformation, St. Sebald has the Sebaldus shrine by Peter Vischer and the epitaphs in the church especially the Volkckamer one by Veit Stoß while St. Lorenz has the Angelic salutation by Stoß and the monumental tabernacle by Adam Kraft. Both churches have some of the best stained glass in the country.
The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is very similar to most of the local state museums, it has a good painting collection, but also lots of sculpture, tapestry, applied arts, music instruments and so on. Since it is the largest cultural museum in the country, it can eat up easily a day or more if you'd wish to explore more thoroughly. The layout is slightly confusing and the room temperature not always pleasant in some parts in summer.
The Dürer house relatively recently got a donation of a large collection of Dürer prints (and this is arguably the field he was best in) so depending on the exhibition in the graphics cabinet you'll hopefully not only see an attempt to bring Dürer's life close to you, but also some originals.
The Fembo house is not only the city museum but also the best of the surviving patrician mansions, there's especially an elaborate but low hanging stucco ceiling which is an attraction in itself.
If you have more time walk over to the Tucher mansion in the northeast where usually no tourist goes, it preserves the Hirsvogelsaaal in a seperate building in the garden. This was once one of the great private interiors of Nuremberg and still is worth a look. On the way I'd check out if you can visit the courtyard of the Peller house whose reconstruction was finished just now by a private intiative, it is the greatest of all the inner courtyards which you usually can not see when walking through the town.
Also worth a look is the cemetary of the city with its very egalitarian, identically sized tombs.

Macross' sentence about the modern art museum which strangely and falsely implies that it is situated in the Imperial castle puzzles me ... and this is certainly not one of the major essential destinations for a Nuremberg visitor. I'd rather go to the railway museum.

The courtyard of Pellerhaus has in the meantime been finished? Good to hear, so I know what to check out when I'm passing through Nürnberg next month.

It's been a couple of years since I've last visited.

Thank you Lubitsch and Quokka, I did not want to see just the Third Reich again, that is why I posted this, sorry how I phrased the post. I appreciate the more in depth information. I am of German heritage generations back and hope to see more than the last time there. i appreciate it.

comma, art museum not in the castle. JM&J.

What freaked me out last time was the dunkin donuts. It was not there our first visit. I love the street vendors there Victoria hotel is our favourite hotel. The wall sculpture for the lighting of candles in St Lorenz is beautiful. There is also an art school there.