Neues Museum Nürnberg, Contemporary art museum in Nuremberg, Germany.
The Neues Museum Nürnberg is an art museum in the old city that displays contemporary works in painting, photography, sculpture, and video. The building itself has a glass facade that brings natural light into the exhibition spaces, allowing artworks to be seen in different lighting conditions.
The museum was founded in 2000 following a design by architect Volker Staab and established as an institution for modern art in Nuremberg's historic old town. The new building combines contemporary architectural language with its surroundings in the medieval city center.
The museum presents works by artists engaging with local and global themes, allowing visitors to explore contemporary artistic positions across different media. The spaces encourage encounters with current artistic questions and the range of approaches in modern art today.
The entrance is on Klarissenplatz, where the 100-metre glass facade faces the square; the atrium and staircase on the right lead up through the levels. The building is fully accessible, and the shop, bookshop and restaurant Kokoro share the premises. The Hexagonal Water Pavilion by Jeppe Hein has stood on the square in several years since 2012.
The museum keeps beehives on its roof; city beekeeper Bernd J. Kobr tends them, and their honey, sold as "Stadtgold", is available in the museum shop. The collection also holds 28 paintings by Gerhard Richter, a loan from the Böckmann collection in 2013 that made the museum the third-largest Richter holding worldwide.
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