18. Artikel der Menschenrechte

The 18th Article of the Human Rights stands in Nuremberg between the historic and modern buildings of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. It belongs to the Way of Human Rights, an open-air sculpture by Israeli artist Dani Karavan. White concrete pillars line a five-metre axis. Each pillar rises eight metres and measures eighty centimetres across, carrying a Universal Declaration of Human Rights article in German and another language.

A gate at the northern end reflects the medieval city gate at the street’s southern end. Thirty pillars include twenty-seven round concrete forms, two buried columns and a column-shaped oak. Monastery remains and sections of the medieval city wall share this setting with buildings designed by Sep Ruf in the 1950s and 1960s. The installation expresses Nuremberg’s turn from its Nazi-era identity towards peace and human rights. In 2001, UNESCO recognised the city’s human-rights education, specifically citing the Way of Human Rights.