The toy museum's building, located in Karlstraße 13–15, can be dated back to 1517 as being the property of Wilhelm Haller, senior, member of a patrician family.

Jeweler, Paul Kandler bought the house in 1611 and had the front rebuilt for the first time (probably by Jakob Wolff senior).

A distinctive feature of the Hallersches Haus, but also of many other houses in Nuremberg, is the Dockengalerie, which is a wooden gallery built around an inner courtyard, connecting the adjacent buildings.

The figure depicting a rooster rider is on top of a pipe rising up out of the fountain's washed-concrete basin.

The collection, which contains around 87,000 objects, of which only about five percent are visible in the museum, spans the time from antiquity to the present.