The Germanisches Nationalmuseum — Nuremberg

This morning we walked across the old town to visit the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.  Here are a few things we saw along the way.

These are the walls that encircle the old part of Nuremberg.

This is the outside of the museum.

We spent about 2-3 hours in the museum.  It’s a great overview of the history of this area and of Germany from the beginning of time.  Here are a few random things I found interesting:

I love these tear catchers.  Blown glass from the Roman era, found here in Nuremberg.  To learn more about them, here’s a post I wrote last year in Jerusalem about tear collectors.

Do you ever think that every person in every portrait or piece of art you see in a museum is now DEAD?? And what did they take with them? Not the rest of the stuff in the museums. Not their treasures. What goes with us, and what stays???

I LOVE this piece:

In the next post I’ll show you a representation of a 1700s farm house.  I love seeing how people lived.  All these bits and pieces help me put the puzzle pieces together in my mind.