Nuremberg Toy Museum
The Nuremberg Toy Museum is a municipal museum founded in 1971. It is one of the most famous toy museums in the world. Covering an area of 1400 m², it is a cultural history of toys from antiquity to the present.
- 3.1 Structure of the exhibition
Cal Haller House
The building of the Toy Museum in the Charles Street 13-15 was first mentioned in 1517 as a patrician estate of William Haller the Elder. 1611 acquired the jeweler Paul Kandler the house and let the facade, probably by Jakob Wolff the Elder, rebuilt for the first time. The Chörlein was built around 1720.
As a structural feature, the Haller house on the poppet gallery, a typical city wooden gallery, built around a central courtyard, the development of the surrounding houses served. When docking turned, baluster wooden rods were called that were used in galleries and in the manufacture of arm and legless wooden dolls. These figures were also called docking.
The property was heavily damaged during the Second World War and rebuilt in subsequent years. The house is station of the Historical Mile Nuremberg.
History of the Museum
Lydia and Paul Bayer
Most of the exhibits date back to decades of collecting activities of Lydia (1897-1961) and Paul Bayer. In the early 1920s, when hardly anyone Toy attributed heritage value, the couple Bayer began to build up a comprehensive collection. The private museum Lydia Bayer was initially available in Würzburg the public.
Museum
The city of Nuremberg took over in 1966, the stocks of the couple Bayer. The Haller House in Charles Street was in 1971, supported by the Friends of the Toy Museum, are related. Under the direction of Dr. Lydia Bayer, the daughter of the couple Bayer, the Toy Museum has developed into an extraordinarily successful museum of international reputation. In 1989, the exhibition area at 1200 m and 1998 expanded through the roof extension to 1400 m².
In 1994, the Toy Museum was incorporated into the museums of the city of Nuremberg.
Gockel rider wells
At the opening of the museum in 1971, Dürer, designed by the Nuremberg artist Michael Mathias Prechtl fountain was erected in front of the Toy Museum.
From a washing concrete pools a tube rises to the brightly painted ceramics and playfully distorted figure of the rooster rider. An iron railing surrounds the figure. The small complex is in the tradition of the Nuremberg small fountain. Through its reminiscent of wooden toys form the fountain sculpture makes reference to the function of the museum, on the other hand it is also reminiscent of Nuremberg as a toy city.
Show
The collection consists of approximately 65,000 objects, of which, however, are seen only about five percent in the museum. The remaining properties are located in the museum depot, but can be viewed on the homepage.
It provides an overview of the cultural history of the toy. The time span of the exhibits ranging from ancient times to the present, with emphasis on the toy development over the last 200 years. Here, in particular the special role of Nuremberg as a world city of the toy in the age of industrialization is clearly justified by the local toy industry.
Installation of the exhibition
- Ground floor: World - Wooden toys
- Second floor: world of dolls - doll houses, doll kitchens, MonoBlocks of tin or paper.
- Third floor: World of sheet metal - a large model railway, numerous vehicles, railways, steam engines, and other animated Another technical toys.
- Attic: history of gambling from 1945 to the present - Lego, Barbie dolls and another hot toy.