page_title: Frankfurt
section_title: Museums
hierarchical_section_title: Frankfurt / Culture / Museums
caption_attribution_description: Städelsches Kunstinstitut ("Städel), Frankfurt am Main. Photography: F. Bucher
context_page_description: Frankfurt is a metropolis and the largest city of the German state of Hesse. Its 753,056 inhabitants make it the fifth-largest city in Germany. On the River Main, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of 2.3 million. The city is at the centre of the larger Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, which has a population of 5.5 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr Region. Frankfurt's central business district lies about 90 km northwest of the geographic centre of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhine Franconian dialect area.
  Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries and was one of the most important cities of the Holy Roman Empire, as a site of imperial coronations; it lost its sovereignty upon the collapse of the empire in 1806, regained it in 1815 and then lost it again in 1866, when it was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia. It has been part of the state of Hesse since 1945.
context_section_description: With more than 30 museums, Frankfurt has one of the largest variety of museums in Europe. 20 museums are part of the Museumsufer, located on the front row of both sides of the Main riverbank or nearby, which was created on an initiative by cultural politician Hilmar Hoffmann.
  Ten museums are located on the southern riverbank in Sachsenhausen between the Eiserner Steg and the Friedensbrücke. The street itself, Schaumainkai, is partially closed to traffic on Saturdays for Frankfurt's largest flea market.
  Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum)
  Deutsches Filmmuseum (German Film Museum)
  Frankfurter Ikonenmuseum (Icon Museum Frankfurt)
  Liebieghaus (Museum of sculptures)
  Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts)
  Museum Giersch (Museum for Regional Art)
  Museum für Kommunikation (Museum of Communications)
  Museum der Weltkulturen (Museum of World Cultures)
  Städel, one of the most famous art museums in Germany
  Bibelhaus Erlebnis Museum (Bible House Experience Museum)
  Two museums are located on the northern riverbank:
  Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt (Jewish Museum Frankfurt)
  Historisches Museum Frankfurt (Historical Museum Frankfurt)
  Not directly located on the northern riverbank in the Altstadt district are:
  Museum für Moderne Kunst (Museum of Modern Art)
  Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Schirn Art Gallery Frankfurt)
  Frankfurter Kunstverein (Art Association Frankfurt)
  Museum Judengasse (Jews' Alley Museum)
  Goethe-Haus (Goethe House)
  Archäologisches Museum Frankfurt (Archaeological Museum Frankfurt)
  Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst
  Dommuseum Frankfurt (Frankfurt Cathedral Museum)
  Another important museum is located in the Westend district:
  Naturmuseum Senckenberg (Senckenberg Natural History Museum), the second largest natural history museum in Germany
  Other museums are the Dialogmuseum (Dialogue Museum) in the Ostend district, Eintracht Frankfurt Museum at Commerzbank-Arena, Explora Museum+Wissenschaft+Technik (Explora Museum of Science and Engineering) in the Nordend district, the Frankfurter Feldbahnmuseum (Light Railway Museum Frankfurt) in the Gallus district, the Verkehrsmuseum Frankfurt (Transport Museum Frankfurt) in the Schwanheim district, the Hammer Museum in the Bahnhofsviertel district and the Geldmuseum der Deutschen Bundesbank (Money Museum of the German Federal Bank) in the Ginnheim district.
caption: The Städel
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