Museum of Industrial Culture (Nuremberg)

Museum building in May 2015

The Museum of Industrial Culture in Nuremberg is a museum for technology, culture and social history that documents the history of industrialization using the example of Nuremberg. It was built in 1988 in a hall of the former Julius Tafel ironworks ( Tafelwerk ) and comprises around 6,000 m² of exhibition space. A school museum as well as a motorcycle museum are attached to the museum, which deals in particular with the company history of the Zündapp company . The neighboring cultural center Tafelhalle is also housed in buildings of the former Tafelwerk. The museum is part of the North Bavarian Industriestrasse .

The museum

The museum displays along a road similar development axis, historic ensembles such as commercial and residential spaces, a worker-club house, a grocery store and a dental practice from the 1930s. Further exhibition units include a printing workshop, a pencil workshop, a plaster mill and a steam engine from the mechanical engineering institute Johann Wilhelm Spaeth , which once supplied the entire panel factory with electricity. The development of cinema and film history, the mechanization of the household, energy use and telecommunications are also discussed. Complemented by historical vehicles and machines, the individual museum units are intended to illustrate the slow transition from a craft to an industrial society. The focus is not only on the development of Nuremberg's industry and its structural change, but also on the influence of industrialization on people's lives - including everyday life, living and working conditions, as well as art and culture.

Thematic changing exhibitions complement the event program as well as an extensive educational museum offer for schoolchildren of all ages. The subject of photography is a fixed part of the exhibition program .

The museum has been one of the museums of the city of Nuremberg since 1994 and is part of the North Bavarian Industriestrasse .

Before the Quelle mail-order company was liquidated in 2009, catalogs, advertising films and similar testimonies to its history were secured for the museum.

management

The decades-long head Matthias Murko retired in April 2017, but retained his position temporarily until his successor, the journalist and historian Monika Dreykorn from Fürth, was able to take up her position in October 2018.

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  Prototype of the Porsche Type 12

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  Collection of historical bicycles

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  Establishment of a grocery store

literature

• Hermann Glaser (Ed.): Industrial culture in Nuremberg. A German city in the machine age. Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 978-3-406-07512-4 .

Web links

Commons : Museum Industriekultur Nürnberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Museum of Industrial Culture
• Museum of industrial culture . In: Webmuseen.de
• Museum of industrial culture . In: Industriegeschichte.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Tscharnke: SOS campaign saves source estate . dpa, December 30, 2009.
2. ↑ nn: New boss for the Museum of Industrial Culture. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten of August 14, 2018, print edition, p. 6

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 40 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 39 ″  E