Spielzeugmuseum Nürnberg

Aktuelle udstillinger

Om museet

The core of the museum is the collection of Lydia and Paul Bayer. As early as the 1920s, Lydia Bayer began collecting dolls, dollhouses, toy shops, and tin toys, at a time when such things were hardly considered to have any cultural-historical value. After her death, her daughter of the same name, an art historian with a doctorate, opened the “Museum Lydia Bayer” in Würzburg in 1962.

In 1965, at the initiative of cultural affairs head Hermann Glaser, the city of Nuremberg acquired the collection. It was given a new home in a former patrician house on Karlstraße; the Spielzeugmuseum opened on February 5, 1971, to coincide with the International Toy Fair. Dr. Lydia Bayer directed the museum until 1994.

The location ties in with Nuremberg's long tradition as a toy city, stretching from the Middle Ages through the tin toy industry of the 19th and 20th centuries to today's Toy Fair. On about 1,400 square meters, the museum today shows toys from several centuries up to the present, including classics such as Lego, Barbie, Playmobil, and Matchbox. The holdings comprise more than 80,000 inventoried objects.

The museum also includes the activity area “Kids on Top,” a museum playground with historical play equipment, and a summer café in the courtyard. More than 5.5 million people have visited the museum since it opened.

Højdepunkter

• Lydia Bayer Cabinet with dollhouses and doll rooms
• Tin toys and model trains by Märklin, Bing, and Schuco
• Kruseler doll and Käthe Kruse dolls
• Wooden houses by Lyonel Feininger
• Toys since 1945: Lego, Barbie, Playmobil, Matchbox
• Children's area “Kids on Top” and museum playground

Permanente udstillinger

• Spielzeug seit 1945 – Permanent exhibition section on toys from the postwar period to the present, from tin cars to Lego, Barbie, and Playmobil.
• Welt der Technik – Section on technical toys such as trains, vehicles, and models, reflecting industrial history in miniature.

Grundlagt

1971

Ejer

Stadt Nürnberg (Museen der Stadt Nürnberg)

Ledelse

Dr. Manuel Seitenbecher

Entrépriser & rabatter

Annual passes for the municipal museums between €10 and €60. Costumed tours and special tours cost extra.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering: ingen oplysninger
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

Step-free entrance with automatic door, elevator, accessible restroom on the first floor, two loaner wheelchairs (child and adult size), tactile floor guidance system for blind and visually impaired visitors. Certified under “Reisen für Alle” (accessibility verified).

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Opgavehæfte, skattejagt eller audioguide for børn
• Interaktive stationer
• Legeplads / legehjørne
• Børnefødselsdage

"Kids on Top" play area in the attic (toy store, dollhouse, drawing and crafts, touch boxes) and museum playground in the courtyard with games from earlier times; children's audio guide. Children's birthday parties (ages 4 and up or 8 and up) and kindergarten programs via the KPZ.

Transport & parkering

Service & spisesteder

• Café
• Restaurant: findes ikke
• Garderobe
• Opbevaringsskabe

Summer café in the historic courtyard (roughly May to October), accessible even without a museum visit. Lockers with a deposit coin.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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