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Museumsufer

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Schaumainkai, 60500 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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The embankment to the south of the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany, is called Museumsufer or Museum Riverbank because of the large concentration of museums there. A globally renowned museum on the riverbank is the Städel art gallery.

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Museumsufer


South side

In this order:

  • Ikonenmuseum - Icon Museum, housing one of the largest collections of Russian, Bulgarian, Greek and other icons in Germany.
  • Museum für Angewandte Kunst - Museum of Applied Arts - housing furniture and design from the 10th to 21st century with a notable collection of East Asian applied arts.
  • Museum der Weltkulturen - Ethnological Museum - displaying a small part of an ethnological collection in changing exhibitions.
  • Deutsches Filmmuseum - 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 (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 collection and a collection of communication related art; temporary exhibitions focus more on the abstract phenomenon of communication.
  • Städel - One of Germany's most prominent fine art museums with a strong focus on old masters and classical modern art.
  • Liebieghaus - A sculpture collection, focusing mainly on sculpture from ancient Greece until the renaissance days.
  • Museum Giersch – Showcases a small permanent collection of local 19th-century artists and houses well received temporary exhibition on artists that have a (loose) connection to the Frankfurt region.
  • Portikus – a small free exhibition space showing temporary exhibitions of contemporary art.

    • North side

  • Jewish Museum Frankfurt – 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.
  • Historisches Museum (Frankfurt) – Displays artefacts off the city's history from Roman times until today, some very prominent old master paintings and sculptures and various temporary exhibitions.

    • The street itself is called Schaumainkai and is often partially closed to traffic for Frankfurt's largest flea market each Saturday.

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