Toy Museum Nuremberg

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Toy Museum Nuremberg
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The Nuremberg Toy Museum or, in other words, Museum Lydia Bayer
Data
place Nuremberg
Art
toy
architect Wilhelm Haller the Elder
opening 1971
Number of visitors (annually) > 150,000
operator
management
Karin Falkenberg
Website
ISIL DE-MUS-106514

The Nuremberg Toy Museum (also Museum Lydia Bayer ) is a municipal museum founded in 1971 . It is one of the most famous toy museums in the world. On an area of ​​1400 m², it shows a cultural history of toys from antiquity to the present day.

Museum history

Haller's house

The toy museum building at Karlstrasse 13-15 was first mentioned in 1517 as a patrician property by Wilhelm Haller the Elder. In 1611 the jeweler Paul Kandler bought the house and had the facade rebuilt for the first time, presumably by Jakob Wolff the Elder. The choir was built around 1720. As a structural feature, Haller's house has the dock gallery , a wooden gallery typical of the city, which, built around an inner courtyard, served to provide access to the surrounding houses. Twisted, baluster-shaped wooden sticks that were used in galleries and in the manufacture of armless and legless wooden dolls were referred to as “docking”. The property was badly damaged during World War II and rebuilt in the following years. The building is the station of the historical mile Nuremberg .

Lydia and Paul Bayer

The core holdings of the museum comprised a good 12,000 objects that had been collected for decades by Lydia (1897–1961) and Paul Bayer (1896–1982). As early as the early 1920s, when hardly anyone thought that toys were of cultural and historical value, the Bayer couple had already started building up a comprehensive toy collection. The private Lydia Bayer Museum in Würzburg on Neubaustraße was open to the public.

museum

The city of Nuremberg took over the holdings of the Bayer couple in 1966. Haller's house in Karlstrasse was opened in 1971 with the support of the Toy Museum's Friends' Association. Under the direction of Lydia Bayer, the daughter of the Bayer couple, the toy museum developed into an exceptionally successful museum with an international reputation. In 1989 the exhibition area was expanded to 1200 m² and in 1998 to 1400 m² through the roof extension. In 1994, the Association of Museums of the City of Nuremberg was set up, which includes the Dürer House, the City Museum in the Fembo House, the Tucherschloss, the Museum of Industrial Culture, the Documentation Center for the Nazi Party Rally Grounds and the Nuremberg Trials Memorium, as well as the Toy Museum with the Nuremberg German Games Archive.

Gockelreiterbrunnen

Gockelreiterbrunnen
place Nuremberg, Bavaria
country Germany Germany
use Art fountain
construction time 1971
architect Michael Mathias Prechtl
Technical specifications
Building material Exposed aggregate concrete
Coordinates
location 49 ° 27 '16.8 "  N , 11 ° 4' 27.7"  E

On the occasion of the opening of the museum in 1971, the fountain designed by the Nuremberg artist Michael Mathias Prechtl was installed in front of the toy museum. A tube with the brightly painted and playfully alienated ceramic figure of the Gockelreiters rises from a washed concrete basin. An iron grating surrounds the figure. The small system is in the tradition of the Nuremberg small fountain. With its shape, which is reminiscent of wooden toys , the fountain figure on the one hand refers to the function of the museum, on the other hand it also reminds of Nuremberg as a toy city.

Exhibitions

The collection comprises around 87,000 objects, of which only around five percent can be seen in the museum. The rest are in the museum depot, but can be viewed on the homepage. It provides an overview of the toy’s cultural history. The time span of the exhibits ranges from antiquity to the present, with the focus on toy development over the past 200 years. Here, the special role of Nuremberg as the world city of toys in the age of industrialization becomes clear, due to the local toy industry.

Permanent exhibitions and other museum spaces

  • Outdoor area
Café La Kritz with a garden railway
Playground with a realm of shadows (climbing pyramid, marble run , play frame, labyrinth , distorting mirror , swinging cone)
  • ground floor
In the beginning there was wood : wooden toys
Special exhibitions / event room for changing exhibitions and events
Cash register / shop
  • Second floor
Dolls, dollhouses, figures : dollhouses , doll kitchens, figures made of pewter or paper
Since 2000 there has been a new museum unit with optical toys e.g. B. peep box , magic lantern and stereoscope .
  • third floor
World of technology : a large model railroad layout , numerous vehicles , trains , steam engines , moving figures and other technical toys
  • Attic
Toys since 1945 : Lego , Barbie , Playmobil and other current toys.
In the newly created children's area Kids on top , children can play, do handicrafts, experiment with various construction sets, play table football or read in children's books.

Special exhibitions

Special exhibitions have been held regularly since 2007.

  • Emergency Toys - The Imagination of the Post-War Era (June 26, 2015– February 1, 2016)
  • Made in GDR - GDR toys for the world (November 21, 2014– April 12, 2015)
  • The world in play - 40 years of Playmobil (April 10 - October 19, 2014)
  • The toy city - Nuremberg and the toy world (May 16, 2013– March 9, 2014)
  • The Christmas presents - room decorations and table for gifts (November 30, 2012– January 4, 2013)
  • Showpiece of the month October 2012: Kruse versus Bing - artist doll and industrial copy (October 1–31, 2012)
  • Strong as a bear! - Animals in the toy world (March 23 - October 21, 2012)
  • ABC and multiplication tables (November 12, 2010– February 20, 2011)
  • All aboard! - Playing with the Railroad (March 26th – October 10th, 2010)
  • Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter - The Four Seasons in Toys (November 13, 2009– February 21, 2010)
  • The snow is falling softly ... - The magic of white Christmas (November 27, 2009– January 5, 2010)
  • Reaching for the Stars - Space and Robot Toys (April 3 – October 11, 2009)
  • The little whole - miniature toys from the Ore Mountains (November 14, 2008– February 22, 2009)
  • Scale 1: x - The world in a model (June 20 - October 12, 2008)
  • Playing outdoors, marveling in the dark (May 1st - October 28th 2007)
  • Knights, castles and tournaments - The Middle Ages in toys (March 23 - September 30, 2007)

Visitor numbers

The museum had the following visitor numbers:

  • 1971-1999: 3.9 million
  • 1991: 143.857
  • 1996: 118.387
  • 2001: 124.945
  • 2003: 101.195
  • 2005: 108.016
  • 2006: 106,528

See also

Web links

Commons : Nuremberg Toy Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address / directions. Nuremberg City Museums / Toy Museum , accessed on April 16, 2014 .
  2. ^ Statistical yearbook of the city of Nuremberg, Nuremberg 2001, 2007

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '16.8 "  N , 11 ° 4' 27.7"  E