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History

Together with the Museum for Communications, the DB Museum forms the Nuremberg Museum of Transport. Read on to discover when the museum was founded and why two museums share one building.

Former Transport Museum 

A detail of a historical vehical

The museum has existed for over 100 years

In 1835, Nuremberg became the terminus of Germany’s first railway. More than 60 years later, in 1899, a railway museum was opened in the same city. Nuremberg’s “Museum of Transport” is the oldest museum dedicated to railway history in Germany.
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The DB Museum 

A bust and a portrait

Deutsche Bahn AG takes over the railway department of the Transport Museum

Deutsche Bahn AG was founded as a result of the Rail Reform in 1994. In 1996, the new Group took over the railway department of the Museum of Transport in Nuremberg as a corporate museum. Since then, the museum has been known as the “DB Museum”.
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Milestones 

A brief chronology of the DB Museum

Here you will find the most important dates, facts and figures on the history of the DB Museum.

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