Albrecht Dürer's House is a five-story half-timbered house in Nuremberg's Altstadt, near the Kaiserburg and the city walls. It was built around 1420, and the article names no builder. The bottom two stories have sandstone walls, and the upper stories are timber-framed under a half-hip roof. The merchant and astronomer Bernhard Walther remodeled it after buying it in 1501, adding small roof windows to serve as an observatory.
Dürer bought the house in 1509 and lived there until his death in 1528. The large east-facing dormer was replaced in 1909. Allied bombing damaged it significantly in October 1944, and it was rebuilt by 1949.
It has been a museum dedicated to Dürer since 1871. It reopened as a museum in 1971, Dürer's 500th birthday. Visitors see period rooms, a re-created workshop and costumed tours.
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