Historical Museum, Frankfurt

The Historical Museum (German: Historisches Museum) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, was founded in 1878, and includes cultural and historical objects relating to the history of Frankfurt and Germany. It moved into the Saalhof in 1955, and a new extension was opened in 1972.

Historical Museum
Historisches Museum
View from the Main, 2009
Location within Hesse
Historical Museum, Frankfurt (Germany)
Established1878 (1878)
LocationFrankfurt, Germany
Coordinates
TypeMuseum
The Historical 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)
3
Museum Angewandte Kunst (Applied Arts)
4
Museum der Weltkulturen (Ethnological Museum)
5
Deutsches Filmmuseum (de) (German Film Museum)
6
German Architecture Museum
7
Museum fĂźr Kommunikation
8
Städel (Fine Arts Museum)
9
Liebieghaus (Classical sculture collection)
10
Museum Giersch (Art and culture of Rhine-Main)
North Bank
11
Jewish Museum Frankfurt
12
Frankfurt Archaeological Museum (de)
13
Historical Museum, Frankfurt
14
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Art exhibition venue)
15
Museum fĂźr Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Museum)
16
Frankfurter Judengasse Museum (Preserved foundations from the Ghetto)
The portrait of Charlemagne in front of the Historisches Museum

The 1970s extension is currently being replaced by a modern new exhibition building and a small administration building which are expected to be completed by 2015.[1]

Collection

The museum's collection is displayed in several permanent chronological exhibitions: Mediaeval Frankfurt, the Late Middle Ages, the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, the nineteenth-century city, and its history as a metropolis from 1866 to 2001. Special exhibitions are also on display.

Important artworks

See also

References

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