Frankfurt's Museumsufer museums

Map of 17 locations in Frankfurt, Germany

Nine museums stand shoulder to shoulder on the Schaumainkai between the Alte Brücke and the Friedensbrücke, and around thirty more Frankfurt and Offenbach houses joined them under a shared mark in October 2007; the association now runs discounts across 39 participating museums, and the Museumsuferfest has filled both banks on the last weekend of August since 1988. Collected here are the embankment row itself plus the members set back from the water: a tower cabinet in Sachsenhausen, a club museum at the stadium, an excavated ghetto lane under Battonnstraße, and an exhibition hall on the island in the middle of the river. Opening hours, prices and the actual state of step-free access are given as the museums and the city record them.

Places in this collection

  • Portikus — The exhibition hall opened in 2006 on the Maininsel at the Alte Brücke, the one Museumsufer venue that stands between the two banks rather…
  • Museum Judengasse — Built over the excavated foundations of houses from the Judengasse, the ghetto lane cleared in the nineteenth century, and run as the secon…
  • Dommuseum — The cathedral museum at Domplatz 1 holds the treasury and the history of the Kaiserdom St. Bartholomäus, where the Holy Roman emperors were…
  • Goethe-Haus — The Goethe family's residence on the Großer Hirschgraben, where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born, is kept by the Freies Deutsches Hochst…
  • Archäologisches Museum — The archaeological collection occupies the Karmeliterkloster in the Altstadt, a short walk from the Mainkai. Standard entry is 8 EUR, 4 EUR…
  • Jüdisches Museum — The Jewish Museum stands on the northern bank near the Untermainkai, in the Rothschild palais with a 2020 extension, and holds the Museumsu…
  • Eintracht Frankfurt Museum — The club museum at the Waldstadion on Mörfelder Landstraße is the Museumsufer member furthest from the river, listed in the association's r…
  • Bibelhaus Erlebnismuseum — Run by the Frankfurter Bibelgesellschaft on Metzlerstraße, a street back from the Schaumainkai, and counted in the Museumsufer group of Sac…
  • Hindemith Kabinett — The Hindemith Institut's cabinet sits inside the Kuhhirtenturm, a surviving tower of the Sachsenhausen fortifications, set back from the ri…
  • Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität — Opened in 2000 and run by the Goethe-Universität, the MGGU closes the western end of the Schaumainkai row of nine. Access is partial: the m…
  • Liebieghaus — The sculpture collection, described in the Museumsufer record as the Museum alter Plastik, occupies a villa on the southern bank and is one…
  • Städel Museum — The Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie dates to 1816 and gained an underground extension for its contemporary holdings during…
  • Museum für Kommunikation — Opened in 1958 as the Bundespostmuseum, the collection covers post, telephony and media technology, and was renovated in the city's post-20…
  • Deutsches Filmmuseum — The film museum, now operating as DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, is counted among the nine houses on the Schaumainkai between t…
  • Museum Angewandte Kunst — Founded in 1877 and known for decades as the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, the applied arts collection occupies the Villa Metzler and Richard M…
  • Ikonen-Museum — The icon collection sits at the Deutschordenskirche where Brückenstraße meets the Deutschherrnufer, the easternmost of the nine museums Wik…
  • Weltkulturen Museum — The ethnographic collection the city founded in 1904 under the name Museum für Völkerkunde, housed in villas on the Schaumainkai embankment…

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