Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Vast museum of German art and culture, home to the oldest surviving globe of the Earth.
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This guide to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg stands you in front of the Erdapfel, the painted globe that a Nuremberg-born merchant, Martin Behaim, talked the city council into funding around fourteen ninety. It follows Behaim from the Portuguese court back to his home town, and the craftsmen who built a model of the whole Earth to his design. Walk slowly around the globe while you listen, and keep an eye on the ocean west of Europe.
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