Nuremberg
Summer evenings in Nuremberg are made for slow wandering: shady beer gardens, warm stone, and that moment when the city turns golden. Grab a red Franconian beer and share a table.
Photo: CTZ – Kristof Gottling
The city was called “the toy capital of the world” once. Today the Toy Museum has more than 87,000 items in its collection from that history.
The German Board Game Archive is the main collector of all German board games (+40,000) and also houses the Spear’s Games Archive .
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Even today, Nuremberg is sometimes called “the pencil capital of the world“. Faber-Castell, Staedtler Mars, Stabilo and Kaweco are some of the brands that still manufacture in the region. There are several flagship stores and factory tours available.
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Aliens have been in Nuremberg already!
On April 14, 1561, UFOs have been sighted in the Nuremberg skies.
The document of UFO sightings: “A dreadful apparition occurred on the sun, and then this was seen in Nuremberg in the city, before the gates and in the country—by many men and women. At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. …”
The inner city is compact and walkable, made for detours: small shops, cafés, Germany’s oldest bookshop, hat shops, one of Europes largest comic book shops and streets that constantly reveal another view of the castle.
Photo: CTZ – Kristof Gottling
Nuremberg’s museums form a whole landscape of their own: from deep-time artifacts to modern culture, from art and science to the city’s many layers of memory.
You can spend an entire day moving from a medieval workshop right out of the “the undeclared capital of the Holy Roman Empire” to industrial history without ever leaving the city. And then there is the GNM, Germany’s largest museum of cultural history, where you can even discover magical hats.
Photo: CTZ – Kristof Gottling
Adjacent to the Worldcon venue are the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds – a vast and unsettling landscape that today serves as a place to confront history and learn from it.
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The Future Museum Nuremberg showcases possible futures across five main exhibitions. If you travel via Munich (about one hour by train), a visit to its parent institution, the Deutsches Museum in Munich—the world’s largest museum of science and technology—is highly recommended.
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Nuremberg’s culinary landscape is shaped by a millennium of tradition – from small gingerbread manufacturers and medieval protected sausage recipes to distinct local beer styles.
On top of that, Nuremberg’s fine-dining scene is powered by the abundance of the surrounding countryside. The region is known for an unusually high concentration of Michelin-recognized restaurants for its size.
As you can guess, Nuremberg has also been called bratwurst or gingerbread capital of the World.
Photo: CTZ – Kristof Gottling
Take a 10 minute train ride to the small Hermann-Oberth-Raumfahrt Museum – showcasing the early history of rocketry.
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