Starting July 19, 2024, a presentation on the first upper floor of the City Museum at Fembo House revives the memory of Nuremberg's former Municipal Gallery. When the city opened the gallery in 1921, it was taking a daring leap into modernism. Drawing from a generously financed budget, Lord Mayor Dr. Hermann Luppe and his Art Commission acquired large numbers of works of art, with a growing emphasis on modern movements like Expressionism and the New Objectivity. The Municipal Gallery served as a living symbol of Nuremberg's advance into modernism. But the gallery closed for good after World War II.
The City Museum at Fembo House presents several outstanding paintings from the Municipal Gallery. Several of the works displayed here, preserved in the city's art collections, are back on public view for the first time since the era of the Weimar Republic.