Tucherschloss, Renaissance castle museum in St. Sebald, Nuremberg, Germany

Tucherschloss is a three-story sandstone-block building at Hirschelgasse 9/11 in Nuremberg's St. Sebald district, built 1533–1544 to a plan probably by Paulus Beheim after French Renaissance models. The street front is closed; on the first floor a small choir with a sandstone balustrade carries a relief of the Fall of Man. The courtyard entrance has two arches around a Tuscan column, and the ground floor holds a hall with a late-Gothic net-rib vault.

Lorenz (II) Tucher had the castle built between 1533 and 1544, probably following a design by Paulus Beheim inspired by French Renaissance châteaux. In 1945 the complex was heavily damaged; only the west courtyard facade up to the second floor, much of the stair tower, the street facade with its sandstone oriel and the ground-floor vaults survived. The family transferred the rebuilt building to the city of Nuremberg after reconstruction in 1967–69.

The museum keeps the Tucher family's own collections, held by the family foundation or individual branches. On show are portraits, furniture and furnishings from Nuremberg's golden age around 1500, baroque interiors and a room devoted to the 19th century, alongside the Limoges-enamelled Tucher pouring vessel and a silver double cup by Wenzel Jamnitzer.

The museum entrance is at Hirschelgasse 9/11 in the St. Sebald district of Nuremberg's old town, and the Hirsvogelsaal stands in the garden behind the main building. The ground floor hall with its late Gothic ribbed vault and the sandstone choir on the street front survived 1945 and are part of the visit. The side buildings, rebuilt 1967–69, now house the administration of the Nuremberg city museums.

The Hirsvogelsaal in the garden was rebuilt by 2000 after wartime destruction; its ceiling painting of the Fall of Phaeton was executed by Dürer's pupil Georg Pencz on 20 separate canvases. The interior design came from Peter Flötner, who introduced Italian Renaissance elements then unusual in Nuremberg.