Kindermuseum Nürnberg, Interactive children's museum in Nuremberg, Germany.
Museum im Koffer is a children's museum in Nuremberg where young visitors explore history through hands-on activities and interactive learning. The museum presents historical objects and everyday items in spaces designed for children to actively experiment, investigate, and discover how people lived in the past.
The museum was founded in 1980 as Germany's first mobile children's institution and later established a permanent home in Nuremberg. The move to this fixed location in 2001 allowed the organization to expand its collections and reach more families over time.
The permanent exhibition "Alltag der Urgroßeltern" recreates a washday, a kitchen, a grocer's shop and a bakery from the grandparents' era. Objects were chosen because the generation that used them is still alive, so children can compare then and now and try skills such as washing, writing or printing that have largely disappeared.
The building by Theo Kief, listed as a historic monument, was converted in 2001 by the Nuremberg firm Niederwöhrmeier + Kief. The second floor holds the "Schatzkammer Erde" environmental learning station with a hands-on research lab, terrariums and greenhouses. The travelling exhibitions reach schools with two buses, so the programme at the house changes.
The name Museum im Koffer refers to the travelling exhibitions, not to the displays in the building: since 1980 the collection has toured with two buses. The permanent house opened in 2001 in a listed building by Theo Kief, remodelled by the Nuremberg office Niederwöhrmeier + Kief. Its second floor holds the environmental learning station "Schatzkammer Erde".
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