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Städel
The Städelhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galeriehttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com is an art museum in Frankfurt am Mainhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel owns 2https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com700 paintings (of which 600 are displayed) and a collection of 100https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com000 drawings and prints as well as 600 sculptures. It has around 4https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com000 m² of display and a library of 100https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com000 books and 400 periodicals.
Historisches Museum
The Historical Museum in Frankfurt am Mainhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germanyhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com was founded in 1878https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com and includes cultural and historical objects relating to the history of Frankfurt and Germany. It moved into the Saalhof in 1955https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com and a new extension was opened in 1972. The museum’s collection is displayed in several permanent chronological exhibitions: Mediaeval Frankfurthttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com the Late Middle Ageshttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com the sixteenth to eighteenth centurieshttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com the nineteenth-century cityhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com and its history as a metropolis from 1866 to 2001. Special exhibitions are also on display.
Naturmuseum Senckenberg
The Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt Am Main is the second largest museum of natural history in Germany. It is particularly popular with childrenhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com who enjoy the extensive collection of dinosaur fossils: Senckenberg boasts the largest exhibition of large dinosaurs in Europe. One particular treasure is a dinosaur fossil with uniquehttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com preserved scaled skin. The museum contains the world’s largest and most diverse collection of stuffed birds with about 2000 specimens.
Museum für Moderne Kunst
Iconic setting for more than 4https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com500 works from around the worldhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com dating from 1960s to the present. The museum was designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein. Because of its triangular shapehttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com it is called “piece of cake”.
Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt
The Museum für Kommunikation is a communication museum in Frankfurthttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germany. It opened on January 31https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com 1958 under the name Bundespostmuseum and is the oldest museum on Frankfurt’s Museumsufer. The museum was owned by Deutsche Bundespost until 1994.
Museum der Weltkulturen
The Museum of World Cultures is an ethnological museum in Frankfurthttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germany. Until 2001 it was called the Museum of Ethnology.
Goethe House
The Goethe House is a writer’s house museum in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt am Mainhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germany. The original building was the family residence of the Goethe familyhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com most notably Johann Wolfgang von Goethehttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com until 1795.
Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt
The Museum Angewandte Kunst is located in Frankfurt am Mainhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germany and part of the Museumsufer. As a place of discoveryhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com the Museum Angewandte Kunst focusses on the perception of currents and developments in society with a special emphasis on designhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com fashion and the performative element.
German Architecture Museum (GAM)
The German Architecture Museum is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurthttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germany. Housed in an 18th-century buildinghttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as a set of “elemental Platonic buildings within elemental Platonic buildings”. The museum organises several temporary exhibitions every yearhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com as well as conferenceshttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com symposia and lectures. It has a collection of ca. 180https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com000 architectural drawings and 600 modelshttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com including works by modern and contemporary classics like Erich Mendelsohnhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Mies van der Rohehttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Archigram and Frank O. Gehry. It also includes a reference library with approximately 25https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com000 books and magazines.
Frankfurter Kunstverein
The Frankfurt Art Association is an art museum founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizens of the city of Frankfurthttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germany. The aim of the institution is to support the arts in the cityhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com which was an important center of trade and business.
Heritage
Old opera house
The original opera house in Frankfurt is now the Alte Operhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com a concert hall and former opera house in Frankfurt am Mainhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germany. It was inaugurated in 1880 but destroyed by bombs in 1944. It was rebuilthttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com slowlyhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com in the 1970shttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com opening again in 1981. Frankfurt Opera is now in a modern building nearbyhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com next door to Schauspiel Frankfurt (drama). Many important operas were performed for the first time in Frankfurthttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com including Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana in 1937.
Old Nicholas Church
The Old St Nicholas Church in Frankfurthttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germanyhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com is a Lutheran medieval church. It is located near the Römer city hall in Frankfurt’s old town called Altstadt. It has 51 bells; 4 are used for peals and 47 are used for carillons. The first chapel on its site was built in mid-12th centuryhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com the current church dates from the middle of the 15th century. Its congregation forms part of today’s Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassauhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com comprising Lutheranhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Reformed and United Protestant congregations.
Goethe Tower
The Goethe Tower is a 43-metre high tower built entirely out of wood on the northern edge of Frankfurt City Forest located in Sachsenhausen. After the Jahrtausendturmhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com the two towers of the Brück aerial testing facilityhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com the Blumenthal Observation Towerhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com and the Linsen Towerhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com it is the fifth tallest wooden construction in Germanyhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com due to the addition of two antenna measuring stations.
Eschenheimer Turm
Eschenheimer Turm was a city gatehttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com part of the late-medieval fortifications of Frankfurt am Mainhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com and is a landmark of the city. The towerhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com which was erected at the beginning of the fifteenth centuryhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com is at once the oldest and most unaltered building in the largely reconstructed Frankfurter Neustadt (new town)https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com now better known as the Frankfurt–Innenstadt
Staufermauer
The Staufenmauer was an old city wall of Frankfurt am Mainhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com Germany. It was built in 1180 under the Hohenstaufen rule to protect the city from attack and surround the present Altstadt. When the city was expanded in 1333https://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com the old wall became a victim of efforts to reorganize the city defenses. Today one can still see a small portion along the Fahrgassehttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com a part that was restored after the 18th century fire in the Jewish Ghetto.
Dreikonigskirche
The Dreikönigskirche is a Lutheran parish church in Frankfurt. It is located on the bank of the Main River. This is a Protestant parish church. In 1340 the Gothic hospital chapel was consecrated. From 1875-1881 the chapel was demolished and construction of Neo-Gothic hall church completed. It is five-bayhttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com with a vaulted main navehttps://Frankfurt.germany-infos.com extended in the middle by side naves with impressive stone galleries.The Master Cathedral Builder was Franz Joseph von Denzinger. In 1956 the stained glass window by Charles Crodel was installed. In 1961 a new organ was installed by organ maker Karl Schuke.
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