Nuremberg Transport Museum

Nuremberg Transport Museum

The Nuremberg Transport Museum is composed of a railway museum and a communications museum owned by Deutsche Bahn. In addition, the museum has two satellite museums in Koblenz, making it one of the oldest technical museums in Europe.

The Nuremberg Transport Museum opened in 1899 as the Royal Bavarian Railway Museum, making it the oldest railway museum in Germany. Today, the building housing the museum was constructed in 1925. The museum primarily showcases railway history through a large number of models and various interactive games and experiments. Currently, the museum features many real exhibits, but even more model exhibits. It houses scale models at a 1:10 ratio, with model displays covering an area of 1,000 square meters; many of these models were created in the late 19th century, and their details are exceptionally intricate. The oldest model dates back to 1882.

As a transport museum, alongside numerous scale models of actual vehicles, there are also railway models. The museum’s railway model layout spans 80 square meters and is very popular with visitors. The museum also has a library that houses around 40,000 books, all related to railways.

Nuremberg Transport Museum

Must-visit reason: Germany’s oldest railway museum

Continent where the attraction is located: Europe【Europe】

Country/Region where the attraction is located: Germany[Germany]

Province/State where the attraction is located: Bavaria [Bavaria]

City where the attraction is located: Nuremberg [Nuremberg]