Museumsufer (Museum Embankment) is the name of a landscape of museums in

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...

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, Germany, lined up on both banks of the river

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or in close vicinity. The centre is the historic art museum Städel. The other museums were added, partly by transforming historic villas, partly by building new museums, in the 1980s by cultural politician

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. The exhibition hall

Portikus Portikus is an exhibition hall for contemporary art in Frankfurt am Main, that was founded in 1987 by Kasper König. The museum is part of the Museumsufer. Portikus presents the work of internationally renowned artists, and exhibits younger, emer ...

was opened on an island at the Alte Brücke in 2006. , 39 museums belong to the Museumsufer.

History

The idea for a group of different museums in Frankfurt was proposed in 1977 by

, who was then as ''Kulturdezernent'' responsible for culture in the city.''Frankfurter Wochenschau'' of 1 February 1977 Before, architect had proposed a concept to the forum for development (''Frankfurter Forum für Stadtentwicklung''). Between 1980 and 1990, existing museums were expanded and many new ones built, often including historic villas. Architects included internationally known Richard Meier,

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and

Hans Hollein Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer

. Beginning in 2008, Frankfurt has restored and expanded some of its museums. The Städel was expanded by an annex, and the Film Museum was renovated.

South bank

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Kabinett) * , housing one of the largest collections of Russian, Bulgarian, Greek and other

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s in Germany *

Museum Angewandte Kunst The Museum Angewandte Kunst is located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and part of the Museumsufer. The alternating exhibitions recount tales of cultural values and changing living conditions. Beyond that, they continually refer to the question o ...

(Museum Applied Arts), housing furniture and design from the 10th to 21st century with a notable collection of East Asian applied arts *

Museum der Weltkulturen The Museum of World Cultures (german: link=no, Museum der Weltkulturen) is an ethnological museum in Frankfurt, Germany. Until 2001 it was called the Museum of Ethnology (''Museum für Völkerkunde''). History It was founded in 1904, as ...

(Ethnological Museum), displaying a small part of an ethnological collection in changing exhibitions. * (German Film Museum), explaining the development of movie-making from the beginnings in the 19th century up until today, includes an art house cinema *

German Architecture Museum The German Architecture Museum (german: Deutsches Architekturmuseum, links=no) (DAM) is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, Germany. Housed in an 18th-century building, the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as ...

(''Deutsches Architekturmuseum''), apart from a small permanent collection, changing exhibitions showcase current architectural projects and trends from around the globe. * Museum für Kommunikation (Communication Museum). The large permanent collection displays various relics from the postal and telephone services, including one of the world's largest stamp collections and a collection of communication related art; temporary exhibitions focus more on the abstract phenomenon of communication. * Städel, one of Germany's prominent fine art museums with a focus on old masters and classical modern art *

Liebieghaus The Liebieghaus is a late 19th-century villa in Frankfurt, Germany. It contains a sculpture museum, the ''Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus'', which is part of the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen bank of the River Main. Max Hollein was the dir ...

, a sculpture collection, focusing mainly on sculpture from ancient Greece until the renaissance days *

Museum Giersch The Museum Giersch is an art gallery on the Main River in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in the Museumsufer area. The museum opened in 2000. It hosts a changing series of exhibitions displaying the art and cultural history of the Rhine-Main are ...

, showcasing a small permanent collection of local 19th-century artists and houses temporary exhibition on artists that have a (loose) connection to the Frankfurt region *

, a small free exhibition space showing temporary exhibitions of contemporary art *

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Museum ( Waldstadion) Museums located in Offenbach am Main: *

German Leather Museum The German Leather Museum (''Deutsches Ledermuseum''), located in Offenbach am Main, Hesse, Germany, is one of the largest leather museums in the world. It has a wide variety of leather items, including some exhibits, which are believed to be mor ...

Klingspor Museum The Klingspor-Museum is a museum in Offenbach, Germany, specializing in the art of modern book production, typography and type. It includes a collection of fine art books from Karl Klingspor, one of the owners of Klingspor Type Foundry in Offe ...

, book and letter art

Gallery South bank

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Jewish Museum Frankfurt The Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main is the oldest independent Jewish Museum in Germany. It was opened by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on 9 November 1988, the 50th anniversary of ''Kristallnacht''. The Jewish Museum collects, preserves and com ...

. The permanent collection gives an overview of the varied fate of Frankfurt's Jewish community through the centuries. Temporary exhibitions focus on contemporary Jewish life and art. *

Historical Museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

, displaying artefacts off the city's history from Roman times until today, some very prominent old master paintings and sculptures and various temporary exhibitions * Caricatura Museum, comic art Museums located in the Old Town but not right on the river bank: * Schirn *

Museum für Moderne Kunst The Museum für Moderne Kunst (''Museum of Modern Art''), or short MMK, in Frankfurt, was founded in 1981 and opened to the public 6 June 1991. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. Because of its triangular shape, it ...

* Part of the Jewish museum in the

Frankfurter Judengasse The Frankfurter Judengasse ("Jews' Lane" in German) was the Jewish ghetto of Frankfurt and one of the earliest ghettos in Germany. It existed from 1462 until 1811 and was home to Germany's largest Jewish community in early modern times. At ...

* in the *

Deutsches Romantik-Museum The Deutsches Romantik-Museum is a museum dedicated to German Romanticism, located in the Innenstadt area of Frankfurt, Germany. The museum opened in September 2021 and is managed by the Freies Deutsches Hochstift, which also operates the a ...

Goethe House The Goethe House is a writer's house museum located in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt, Germany. It is the birthplace and childhood home of German poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is also the place where Goethe wrote hi ...

Museums located in Westend, Frankfurt: *

Naturmuseum Senckenberg The Naturmuseum Senckenberg is a museum of natural history, located in Frankfurt am Main. It is the second-largest of its type in Germany. The museum contains a large and diverse collection of birds with 90,000 bird skins, 5,050 egg sets, 17,0 ...

Gallery North bank

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Events

The street on the south is called

Schaumainkai Schaumainkai is a street in central Frankfurt, Germany, running along the south side of the river Main. It includes a number of museums including the Städel. Because of the large concentration of museums on the riverside, the area is called Museu ...

and is often partially closed to traffic for Frankfurt's largest flea market each Saturday. Two festivals focus on the Museumsufer, the "Nacht der Museen" (Night of the Museums) when several museums open at night, and the (Museumsufer Festival) in August.

Tickets

* MuseumsuferTicket (2 days) * MuseumsuferCard (1 year)

Panorama

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References

External links

* {{coord, 50, 06, 22, N, 8, 40, 43, E, display=title, region:DE-HE_type:landmark_source:dewiki Geography of Frankfurt *Museumsufer Museum districts Lists of museums Tourist attractions in Frankfurt