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© SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
With an impressive variety of museums and galleries, Frankfurt am Main has earned a national reputation as a city of the arts. Every year more than 2 million people visit the city’s approximately 60 exhibition centres. Galleries also present a comprehensive range of contemporary art from the areas of painting, photography and sculpture.

A prominent attraction is Frankfurt’s Museum Riverbank, one of the most important locations for museums in Germany and all of Europe. Renowned exhibition centres such as the Städel Museum (Städel Museum), the German Architecture Museum (Deutsches Architekturmuseum), the German Film Museum (Deutsches Filmmuseum), or the Jewish Museum (Jüdisches Museum) can be found along the bank of the Main river. And every year many museums invite people to two special cultural events: the “night of museums” and the Museum Riverbank festival. 

We would like to present a small selection from the many possibilities available. You can find other museums and galleries in the city of Frankfurt am Main’s comprehensive cultural portal.

Museums Archaeological Museum - Archäologisches Museum

Archaeological Museum

Long-vanished times are brought back to life in the Archaeological Museum. Findings from 200,000 years show how people once lived, worked, fought, worshipped and celebrated.

Museums Bible House - Bibelhaus Erlebnismuseum Frankfurt

Bible Experience Museum

The Bible Experience Museum shows the tradition, past and present life, and current significance of the book of books.

Museums Museum for Comic Art - Caricatura Museum

Caricatura – Museum for Comic Art

Frankfurt is considered to be the city with the greatest satirical density per square metre. This museum is dedicated to the illustrators and authors of the New Frankfurt School.

Museums Dialogue Museum - Dialogmuseum

Dialogue Museum

In the dialogue museum, the blind open the eyes of the sighted when they rediscover the world with (almost) all their senses.

Museums Eintracht-Frankfurt Museum

Eintracht Frankfurt Museum

Football fans can relive unforgettable games at first hand in the Eintracht Frankfurt Museum under the grandstand of the Deutsche Bank Park.

Museums Transport Museum Frankfurt am Main- Verkehrsmuseum

Transport Museum Frankfurt am Main

A secret tip among tramway fans. Children like it too: The Transport Museum presents over 125 years of Frankfurt municipal transportation.

Museums Entrance Frankfurt Art Association, Photo: Stefan Maurer

Frankfurt Art Association

The Frankfurt Art Association is one of the most important exhibition centres for contemporary art, both nationally and internationally.

Museums German Film Museum - Deutsches Filmmuseum, Photo: Stefan Maurer

German Film Museum

Learn about history and present of the medium of film as well as its aesthetics and influence in the exhibitions of the Deutsches Filmmuseum!

Museums German Museum of Architecture, Photo: Stefan Maurer

German Museum of Architecture

Prehistoric hut or skyscraper – the German Museum of Architecture presents the variety of ideas and plans revolving around man’s need for a roof over his head.

Museums Exhibition 'I see wonderful things' at Museum Giersch, Photo: Stefan Maurer

MUSEUM GIERSCH

The MUSEUM GIERSCH has successfully dedicated itself to the research and mediation of regional art - a unique characteristic in the context of Frankfurt's rich museum landscape.

Museums The sign of the Goethe Museum in the Goethe House, Photo: Stefan Maurer

Goethe House and Goethe Museum

In the Goethe House, friends and admirers feel themselves transported back into the world of the great poet and most famous son of the city of Frankfurt.

Museums Historical Museum on the Römerberg, Photo: Stefan Maurer

Historical Museum Frankfurt

Frankfurt’s oldest municipal museum presents five fascinating permanent exhibitions.

Museums Centrepiece spice container, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

Höchst Porcelain Museum

Located in the Höchst district, the Porcelain Museum in the Kronberger Haus exhibits treasures from the second oldest German porcelain manufacturer.

Museums Icon Museum - Ikonen Museum

Icon Museum

Sometimes gaudy, sometimes shrouded in mystery, the Icon Museum shows the world of images of the Orthodox belief from northern Russia to Ethiopia.

Museums The Jewish Museum, Photo: Stefan Maurer

Jewish Museum

In the Rothschild Palais and on Börneplatz, the Jewish Museum documents the role of the Jewish community in Frankfurt in its changing history.

Museums Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection - Liebieghaus

Liebieghaus Sculpture Collection

The Liebieghaus is considered to be a special gem among the museums on the Main riverbank. It is the home of one of the most important collections of sculpture in Europe.

Museums Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst in the city centre, Photo: Stefan Maurer

Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst

Artworks from 1960 to the present day are shown in the Museum of Modern Art. The museum is one of the most important institutions of contemporary art.

Museums The Money Museum

Money Museum of the Deutsche Bundesbank

At the Money Museum, you can investigate the world’s most important medium of exchange.

Museums Museum of Applied Art - Museum Angewandte Kunst

Museum of Applied Art

The Museum of Applied Art shows art in everyday life of the cultures and epochs in an extraordinary environment.

Museums Museum for Communication - Museum für Kommunikation

Museum for Communication

What is more important to people than passing on information and creating networks? The museum presents the world of communication in an artistic way.

Museums Natural History Museum Senckenberg, Photo: Stefan Maurer

Senckenberg Natural History Museum

From the Big Bang to humans – the Senckenberg Natural History Museum makes the development of our planet and the diversity of life easy to understand.

Museums Portikus, Photo: Stefan Maurer

Portikus

In an exposed location on the Main island, Portikus Frankfurt am Main presents the latest directions in contemporary art, and always offers something new and surprising.

Museums Schirn-Kunsthalle

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Top-quality exhibitions with constantly new aspects from art and society attract a broad spectrum of visitors to the Schirn, between the Cathedral and the Römer.

Museums The "Städel", Photo: stefan Maurer

Städel Museum

The internationally renowned Städel Museum on the Main riverbank exhibits masterpieces from 7 centuries – a must for anyone visiting Frankfurt.

Museums Stoltze Museum, Photo: Uwe Dettmar

Stoltze Museum of Frankfurt Savings Bank

Friedrich Stoltze is not only Frankfurt’s best-known dialect poet. The Frankfurt Savings Bank’s museum is dedicated to him and his work.

Museums Struwwelpetermuseum

Struwwelpeter Museum

The world of Struwwelpeter and his author Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894) is brought to life in the middle of the New Frankfurt Old Town.

Museums Weltkulturen Museum in Sachsenhausen, Photo: Stefan Maurer

Weltkulturen Museum

The Weltkulturen Museum is a place for approaching, encountering and experiencing other perspectives, and also offers contemporary art from outside Europe.