PROF. DR. KARIN FALKENBERG

Prof. Dr. Karin Falkenberg is director of the Nuremberg Toy Museum, where she has worked since 2014. The museum’s history dates back 600 years and it has a collection of 87,000 objects, only a fraction of which is exhibited.

Could you tell us about the history of toy-making in Nuremberg?

Nuremberg, as a city of toys, looks back on more than 600 years of tradition. As early as the 14th century, doll makers fashioned figures from clay and dolls from wood. In the 16th and 17th centuries, Nuremberg craftsmen produced elaborate dolls’ houses