Palais Fembohaus

Philipp van Oyrl, a merchant from the Netherlands, built the house at the foot of the Imperial Castle between 1591 and 1596. The patrician Christoph Jakob Behaim had it transformed into a magnificent residential palace in the 17th century. Later, millions of copper-engraved maps were produced here, as the famous Homann Map Office was located here. Finally, Georg Christoph Franz Fembo acquired the house, which passed into the possession of the city of Nuremberg in 1928 and has served as a city museum since 1953. The main building survived the bombings of the Second World War almost undamaged, while other parts of the building suffered significant damage and were rebuilt.