Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg

The Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg is the largest museum of cultural history in the German-speaking region. Founded in 1852, the museum’s holdings today contain more than 1.3 million objects. More than 22,000 permanently displayed originals offer a journey through time, from a stone age hand-axe and the Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf to medieval sculptures of Veit Stoß and Tilman Riemenschneider, the Behaim Globe, Albrecht Dürer’s imperial portraits, Rembrandt’s self-portrait all the way to that of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.