The city Museum is located in the heart of the old town at Martin-Luther-Platz. It is housed in the former Old Town Hall, a worth seeing Baroque building of the city of Erlangen, built between 1733 and 1740. The historic building was completely renovated between 1989 and 1993 and expanded to include a neighboring town house from the 18th century. The museum complex has around 1000 m2 Exhibition Area . Of these, approximately 600 m2 for the exhibition collection and approx. 350 m2 available for special exhibitions.
The permanent exhibition offers a complete tour of the city history in five sections, which begins with the first traces of settlement in the Erlangen area and ends with the modern university and Siemensstadt in the 20th century.
In addition, the museum annually shows several Special Exhibitions in the subject areas of urban history, cultural and contemporary history, history of science, history of medicine and fine arts.
The focal points of the permanent collection and the changing exhibitions are accompanied by museum education. Special events, scientific publications, guided tours of the exhibitions on Sundays and group tours on request round out the Museum program In summer, the large courtyard is used for Museum festivals and other cultural events utilized.
Of supra-regional importance is the Collection of the city museum to the Huguenot trades the hosiery weavers, glove makers, tanners and carpet weavers. archaeological finds from the Urnfield and Hallstatt periods, tools and machines from the time of industrialization, objects of rural life and folklore, arts and crafts, the bourgeois home decor as well as student items and toys, but also works from Erlangen and Franconian .
