The Germanisches Nationalmuseum is the largest cultural history museum in the German-speaking world. High and everyday culture are presented together, providing fascinating insight into Europe’s cultural heritage, presented as the child of constant exchange and a reflection of ancient, Byzantine, Arabic, and Asian culture. With objects including a gold hat from the Bronze Age, the oldest globe in the world, the eagle brooch from Ravenna, and a Syrian astrolabe, the museum shows the eventful history of humankind just as impressively as Albrecht Dürer’s masterful paintings and Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s Kneeling Woman.

The German National Museum’s large collection of Lobmeyr glass includes rare objects from the second half of the nineteenth century and features designs by Theophil Hansen, an important architect of the Vienna Ringstrasse era, who often worked in close coordination with Lobmeyr. A large part of the Nuremberg collection was purchased at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873. Only a few objects from the twentieth century are featured, one of them a tumbler from the Alpha set by Hans Harald Rath.

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