Nuremberg's culture runs from Dürer's own timbered house to Volker Staab's glass wave curling against the medieval wall. Three days here trace the Renaissance printmaking city, the Jugendstil opera house, and the studio quarters of Gostenhof and the Milchhof.
The only surviving 15th-century artist's house in northern Europe, where Dürer lived from 1509 until his death in 1528. Historic printing press demonstrations run through the day in the reconstructed workshop. Open Tue–Sun 10:00–17:00.
Volker Staab's 100-metre curved glass facade curls up against a surviving arc of the medieval city wall. Inside: post-1945 art from Beuys to Gerhard Richter, paired with a design collection of Braun radios and Bauhaus furniture.
The municipal contemporary hall occupies a converted 1913 fruit warehouse on Lorenzer Straße and holds no permanent collection at all — three or four large solo exhibitions a year, hung in raw white rooms. Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00, Wed until 20:00.
Around twenty half-timbered houses survived the 1945 firebombing that levelled nine-tenths of the old town, making this the densest original row left in Nuremberg. Steep gables, hoisting beams and the old tanners' workshop doors at street level.
Günther Domenig's glass and steel spear stabs diagonally through Albert Speer's unfinished Congress Hall — a deliberate architectural rebuttal built into the perpetrator's own masonry. The exhibition covers the rallies and their staging.
Courtroom 600 in the Palace of Justice is still a working Bavarian courtroom, so access depends on the day's docket; the upper-floor exhibition on the 1945–46 trials of Göring, Speer and Hess is open regardless of proceedings.
A patrician family's summer palace of 1533, furnished with Tucher portraits, Renaissance stained glass and a walled garden. Beside it stands the Hirsvogelsaal, rebuilt from rubble around its surviving ceiling painting by Georg Pencz.
The Jugendstil opera house of 1905 seats around a thousand and runs opera, ballet and the Staatsphilharmonie in repertory. The box office on Richard-Wagner-Platz opens well before curtain, and upper-tier seats start near €18.
Beneath the castle rock, climate-controlled cellars hid Dürer's panels, Veit Stoss carvings and the imperial regalia through the air raids. Entry is by guided tour only, starting from the Brauereiladen at Obere Schmiedgasse 52.
The quarter immediately west of the ring road carries Nuremberg's densest run of murals and shopfront galleries, along Adam-Klein-Straße and Austraße, threaded between Turkish bakeries, record shops and second-hand dealers.
Founded in 1792 and housed in Otto Ernst Schweizer's 1930 Milchhof, a listed New Objectivity dairy building. The programme is strictly emerging contemporary art — roughly four shows a year, with artist talks on opening nights.
A 1930s Wehrmacht barracks converted into a house for contemporary culture: two concert halls, artist studios, a silkscreen workshop and the Roter Salon club, with a gravel beer garden that fills from early evening.