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Archaeological Museum in the Convent of the Karmelites
In the 1989 reopened church of the former Covent of the Karmelites, many interesting things about archaeology and cultural history can be discovered. From prehistory, the orient, classical ancient world to the Roman times and the Middle Ages the everyday life and the different cultures in and around Frankfurt are displayed. With reconstructions the museum tries to reflect the exhibits in a veridical way. Still today there are investigations in the Old Town of Frankfurt and in the Garden of the Archaeological Museum which show three cultural eras.
In the museum the life of early history can be experienced with all human senses. Besides there are concerts and very interesting readings regarding the exhibited topics. A cultural highlight is the satiric theatre “Schmiere” which performs in the basement of the monastery. It deals with Germany and its problems in a critical but funny way. Website of the theatre: www.die-schmiere.de
Opening times:
Tues – Sun 10 – 5 pm, Wed 10 am – 8 pm, closed on Mon
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Karmelitergasse 1
60311
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 2123
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| www.archaeologisches-museum.frankfurt.de |
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German Museum of Architecture
The Museum of Architecture (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main is the prefect address for all those who want to understand and experience architecture and its history. The museum was designed between 1979 and 1984 by the architect O.M Ungers from Cologne. He conceived a house in a house and with it an exceptional example and symbol of architecture. The permanent exhibition “From the ancestral hut to the skyscraper” shows 24 big models which present the history of construction and settlement. Furthermore, the DAM exhibits a collection of 180.000 designs and drawings as well as 600 models. Each year current projects of modern architecture (19th and 20th century) are shown on international and national levels. Active contributions like lectures and photographic exhibitions, literature and music events make this museum to an interesting location. Kids and teenagers can experience architecture in workshops and projects. The library which consists of 25.000 books and magazines about architecture has a free entry for all visitors.
Opening times:
Tues, Thurs – Sun 11 am – 6 pm, Wed 11 am – 8 pm, closed on Mo
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Schaumainkai (Museumsufer) 43
60596
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 212 38844
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| www.dam-online.de |
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German Film Museum
The former communal cinema from 1971, which used to be the first city cinema of Germany, was used as a precursor for the film museum. When Frankfurt received an important collection of film history in 1976, plans were made to make the exhibits public. In 1984 the German Film Museum, the communal cinema and the German Institute for Filmology moved into a new home at the Schaumeinkai. The young history of the film, that goes back only a hundred years, and its media are displayed in the museum in an interactive exhibition which brings the history, theory and the aesthetics closer to the visitor. Reconstructed studios, settings, techniques and the development of the film production are shown as optical illusions as well as in show boxes and magic barrels. There is also a colossal camera obscura which can be entered and discovered from the inside. The integrated movie theatre shows retrospectives, premieres and film series. Some of them even in their original version. The public library offers enough further material and many special exhibitions about movies extend the permanent exhibition perfectly.
Opening times:
Tues, Thurs and Fr 10 am – 5 pm, Wed and Sun 10 am – 7 pm, Sat 2 pm – 7 pm, closed on Mo
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Location:Deutsches Filmmuseum / Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF e.V.
Schaumainkai (Museumsufer) 41
60596
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 961220220
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| www.deutsches-filmmuseum.de |
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Dialogmuseum
There is nothing to see in the Dialogmuseum. The interactive exhibition “Dialogue in the Dark” opened in 2005 in Frankfurt. It actually covers the invisible and the sensible which is presented in six different rooms. Experience how it is to be blind by using all your other senses. Visitors are lead through the rooms in small groups by the blind staff. The simulation of blindness shall give a new impression of seeing and support the abolishment of a negative attitude towards blindness as well as ignorance and loss of orientation. After the tour visitors can have a bite in the restaurant “Taste of Darkness” where food is served in a dark but interesting atmosphere. In the “Casino for Communication” a game can be played which affords a lot of team work. Therefore improvisation, creativity and empathy are demanded.
Opening times:
Tues – Fr 9 am – 5 pm, Sat, Sun and public holidays 11 am – 7 pm, closed on Mo
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Hanauer Landstraße 137-145
60314
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 9043210
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| www.dialogmuseum.de |
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EXPLORA Museum – Science – Technics
The Explora Museum is located in the former air-raid shelter and includes the worldwide biggest collection of 3D art and stereo pictures. Visual perception is trained by visual phenomena and optical illusions. This exceptional museum sends visitors on an experimenting journey. Mysteries of illusions and perception can be experienced with 3D glasses and many other effects. With all its scientific models and demonstrations an exiting and effective learning effect can be achieved.
Opening times:
Tues – Sun 11 am – 6 pm, closed Mo
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Bunker Glauburgplatz
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 788888
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| www.exploramuseum.de |
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Monetary Museum of the German Central Bank
The Monetary Museum of the German Central Bank gives an insight to the political and economical correlation. The modern building presents papers regarding the history of money, starting in ancient times and ending up today, as well as a documentation of the fabrication, function and politics of money. Also information of monetary policy and about the Central Bank itself is given. Special highlights are the changing exhibits of coins or means of exchange of different countries. You also have the possibility to check your own money for authenticity. The interactive exhibition mediates a lot about the connection of money with economics and politics. Tours, museum evenings and lectures to several monetary issues are up to date and animate for discussion.
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Wilhelm-Epstein-Straße 14
60431
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 95663073
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| www.geldmuseum.de |
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Goethe Birthplace and Goethe Museum
Goethe’s birthplace which was destroyed in WWII was reconstructed to its original place. Equipment and furniture conform to the middle-class living culture of the late baroque. The annexed museum presents a considerably large collection of writings, graphics and busts from the 18th and 19th century including the late baroque, classicism, romanticism and Biedermeier. The library, which includes 120.000 volumes, concentrates on German literature between 1740 and 1840, containing pieces from Goethe himself and others around him. There are also special exhibitions of delicate papers and documents of Goethe. The speciality of the museum is its exclusive concentration on Goethe and his environment showing Goethe’s connection to art and artists of his time.
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Location:Freies Deutsches Hochstift Frankfurter Goethe-Museum
Großer Hirschgraben 23-25
60311
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 138800
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| www.goethehaus-frankfurt.de |
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Jewish Museum & Jewish Alley
Both museums are very attractively designed and show impressively the historical development and the religious culture of Frankfurt’s Jewish communities since the 12th century. The interchange between Jews in Germany and their environment is shaped by culture, science, politics and economics. Some other topics of the permanent exhibition in the Rotschildpalais are the fight for integration and the beginning of a new life after WWII.
The museum Jewish Alley at the Börneplatz is a dependance which is located in the historic centre of Frankfurt’s Jewish life. It shows 5 former Jewish living houses and two ritual baths and fountains as well as a canal of the Jewish Alley from the 15th to the 18th century. In order to point out an understanding for the Jewish life, movies, lectures and events about the situation of the Jewish community are provided.
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Untermainkai 14-15
60311
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 212 35000
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| www.juedischesmuseum.de |
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Museum of World Cultures / Gallery 37
The former museum of ethnology is now a place of approach, meeting and experience of others. It also serves as a panel for intervention of different cultures and their way of life, to show similarities and differences, unfold global topics and sensitise people for it. Changing exhibitions and events deal with the meaning of human life, integration into society as well as status and the correlation of power and many other things regarding foreign cultures and their meaning. Besides, 37 galleries exhibit Indian, African, Oceanic and Indonesian pieces of contemporary artists.
The exhibitions are accompanied by lectures, musical events, chats with artists and workshops. The intercultural atelier, die pedagogic department of the museum communicates backgrounds and knowledge to the several exhibitions and above that offers a varied programme and much space for creativity.
Opening times:
Tues, Thurs – Sun 10 am – 5 pm, Wed 10 am – 8 pm, closed Mo
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Schaumainkai (Museumsufer) 29-37
60594
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 21235913
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| www.mdw-frankfurt.de |
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Museum for Applied Art
The American architect R. Meier created a landscape in a historically grown environment at the Museumsufer. Three white cubes are connected with the Villa Metzler and the close-by park. The architectural scenery which combines classical modernity and classical old buildings to one art piece. The museum for applied art is arts–and–crafts museum which is one of the biggest ones in Germany. The collection includes more than 6000 designs from Romanticism to today and embraces pieces from different cultures of the world. The permanent exhibition “European Applied Art” reflects the development of different eras of art styles. Furthermore, the museum possesses amazing Islamic and East Asian art crafts in the area of architecture and graphics going through different centuries. Exhibitions regarding product design and digital craft, digital art and daily life culture round off the programme. Information about artists and their techniques are provided at tours, lectures and workshops. The library of the museum is also open for everyone and gives many background information.
Opening times:
Tues, Thurs – Sun 10 am – 5 pm, Wed 10 am – 9 pm, closed on Mo
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Schaumainkai (Museumsufer) 17
60594
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 21234037
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Städel Museum
The art institute of J.F. Städel, which emerged from the Money and Painting Foundation in 1816, is one of the oldest and most important art collections in Europe. It includes art from medieval times to contemporary pieces from many different places in Europe, for example Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the Netherlands. In 2700 paintings, 600 sculptures and 100.000 drawings and print graphics visitors can follow 700 years of art history. Exhibited are works of Dürer, Rembrandt and Monet, pieces from the 14th to the 18th century as well as impressionistic and expressionistic painter such as Cézanne, Matisse and Picasso. Setting and magnetic point of the museum is the sculpture garden, which is presented by contemporary artists, and the internationally recognised exhibitions. Also this museum has a comprehensive library with literature and magazines about art history.
Opening times:
Tues, Fr – Sun 10 am – 6 pm, Wed and Thurs 10 am – 9 pm, closed on Mo
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Schaumainkai (Museumsufer) 63
60596
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 6050980
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Museum for Communication
This museum presents interactively the century old history of communication and the diversity of the media. The way of the intercession of media is presented by dialogue oriented tours as well as lectures. Visitors are taught in workshops via “learning by doing” how media and its relationships work. In the workshop for children, the little ones can experience and learn a lot. The permanent exhibition “Media tells (hi)stories” is complemented by different special exhibitions to some subject areas of communication. Readings, lectures, films and events round off the programme. The museum was opened in 1878 and was used as a substitute for the Federal Mail Museum. Today it is hosted by the costly designed glass and steel building and is connected subterraneous to an old listed villa.
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Schaumainkai (Museumsufer) 53
60596
Frankfurt am Main
Tel: +49 (0)69 60600
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