German Architecture Museum

The German Architecture Museum (German: Deutsches Architekturmuseum) (DAM) is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, Germany. Housed in an 18th-century building, the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as a set of "elemental Platonic buildings within elemental Platonic buildings".[1] It houses a permanent exhibition entitled "From Ancient Huts to Skyscrapers" which displays the history of architectural development in Germany.[2]

Deutsches Architekturmuseum
LocationMuseumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
Websitedam-online.de/en/
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The German Architecture Museum is one of the Museums of the Museumsufer, Frankfurt am Main
South Bank
1
Icon Museum (de) (Museum of Orthodox sacred Art)
2
Portikus (Exhibition hall for contemporary art)
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Museum Angewandte Kunst (Applied Arts)
4
Museum der Weltkulturen (Ethnological Museum)
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Deutsches Filmmuseum (de) (German Film Museum)
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German Architecture Museum
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Museum fĂźr Kommunikation
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Städel (Fine Arts Museum)
9
Liebieghaus (Classical sculture collection)
10
Museum Giersch (Art and culture of Rhine-Main)
North Bank
11
Jewish Museum Frankfurt
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Frankfurt Archaeological Museum (de)
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Historical Museum, Frankfurt
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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Art exhibition venue)
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Museum fĂźr Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Museum)
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Frankfurter Judengasse Museum (Preserved foundations from the Ghetto)
Interior of the museum

The museum organises several temporary exhibitions every year, as well as conferences, symposia and lectures. It has a collection of ca. 180,000 architectural drawings and 600 models, including works by modern and contemporary classics like Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Archigram and Frank O. Gehry. It also includes a reference library with approximately 25,000 books and magazines.[3]

Awards

The DAM grants several awards:

See also

References
  1. Glancey, Jonathan: Obituary: OM Ungers in The Guardian, 18 October 2007
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-01-22. Retrieved 2014-09-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. www.frankfurt.de Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 17 April 2011


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