Museum District, Frankfurt Museumsufer

In the center of the Museumsufer in Frankfurt is the Städel Art Institute, with the Municipal Gallery, an excellent collection of painting from the 14th C. to the present day (Rembrandt, Cranach, Dürer, Goya; Italian, Dutch and Flemish masters).

The Frankfurt Museum of Applied Art, housed in the neo-classical Villa Metzler and a new building opened in 1985, has some 30,000 items of European and Asian applied art - furniture, tapestries, glass, ceramics, books and manuscripts.

The Museum of Ethnography in Frankfurt is one of the finest museums in Germany. The museum was founed in 1904 by Dr. Bernhard Hagen.

The German Postal Museum, the predecessor of which was opened in Berlin in 1878, has been housed in Frankfurt since 1958. The exhibits illustrate the history of the postal service and telecommunications.

In the Liebieghaus in Frankfurt is the Museum of Ancient Sculpture (Asian and Egyptian, Greek and Roman, medieval, Renaissance and Baroque).

The German Architectural Museum in Frankfurt illustrates the interaction between social and ecological objectives, the technical capacity available and ideas of architectural design.The museum is home to 200.000 architectural plans, drawings and sketches, 1240 models, pictures and furniture.

The Film Museum in Frankfurt has five sections: from the camera obscura to the Lumière brothers; the work of the Lumière brothers; history of the cinema; the language of film; and sound in film.