The artistic landscape of the Rhine Main region is preserved at this museum of art located at the Schaumainkai Museumsufer in Frankfurt. The gallery is the repository of an eclectic collection of works by local artists with a focus on 19th century and 20th century art.
The Museum Giersch is housed in a neoclassical villa built in the early 1900s for the Holzmann family of entrepreneurs. The building is one of the few neo classical structures that survived the ravages of war on the banks of the river Main. In 1994 a foundation was established by Frankfurt businessman Carlo Giersch and his wife Karin. The foundation converted the structure into a museum to showcase works of Rhine Main artists. The foundation runs the museum today.
The art and cultural history of the Rhine Main region are portrayed through permanent and changing exhibits at the museum. The gallery features art work loaned from large private collections. Exhibits include paintings, sculpture, photography, graphic art, architecture and applied art. The ground floor houses permanent exhibits and the upper floors feature changing themed or other exhibitions. The first floor is rented for lectures, banquets or receptions. Visitors can reserve a place on a guided tour around the museum.

The city of Frankfurt obtained this palatial mansion to house the sculpture museum in 1908. Liebieghaus, the home of Baron Heinrich von Liebieg stands on the banks of the River Main near the other major museums of Frankfurt.
Leonhard Romies a well known architect was commissioned to build a retirement home for Bohemian textile magnate Baron Liebieg between 1892 and 1896. The structure has a confluence of styles, influenced by the study tours around Europe undertaken by its builder. The design has elements of Bamberg renaissance, Tyrolean and palatial Historicist architectural styles. In 1908, the Baron by his will sold the villa at a special price to the city on condition that it would be maintained as a museum.
Liebieghaus is a repository of sculpture and has artifacts that are over 5000 years old. The museum features Egyptian, Medieval Baroque, Renaissance and Neoclassical sculpture in its vast collection. Treasures among the collection include a marble Athena, Carolingian ivory reliefs, Hans Multscher’s alabaster sculpture of the Trinity and a bust of Barbel von Ottenheim mistress of Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last Lord of Lichtenberg. .
Visitors can use an audio guide for an informative and interesting insight about the artists and the stories behind the creation of each exhibit. The museum is open on all days of the week with free entry for children under the age of 12.

The first museum to open on the banks of the River Main, the Stadel Museum has a vast collection of masterpieces spanning 7 centuries. Paintings featured at the galleries include works of well known artists from the 14th century to the present. The Stadel Institute is devoted to teaching and encouraging local artists.
The Stadel Art Museum was established in 1816 by prominent Frankfurt banker Johann Friedrich Stadel to house his vast collection of art. Stadel donated the collection and his house to the city. In 1878 a new large building in the German Grunderzeit style was constructed by architect Oskar Sommer as a repository for the subsequent art collections acquired by the museum.
The collection of art at the museum includes, Flemish primitives, Impressionists, Post Modernists, works of the 17th and 18th century Dutch and German masters, 19th century romanticist French and German paintings and works form later art movements like cubism, impressionism and expressionism. Modern pieces include the works of Bacon, Dubuffet and Yves Klein. Treasures at the gallery include Goethe in the Italian countryside by Tischbein, The Geographer by Johannes Vermeer and the Lucca Madonna by Jan van Eyck. The building also has a large library with a range of art books and periodicals.
Visitors can take a short guided tour around the paintings and artwork on display. The museum stays open Tuesdays through Sundays and children under 12 are admitted free.

The history and the story of communication are told through the exhibits in this museum located on the banks of the River Main in Frankfurt. The interactive gallery showcasing the postal and communications evolution, ranks third among the favorite museums of visitors to the city.
The idea of a communications museum was first conceived in the 19th century by Heinrich von Stephan. He established an art museum devoted to postal communication in Berlin. After the division of Germany, a new postal museum was opened at a villa on the banks of the River Main in 1958. In 1990 a modern building was constructed with a glass façade and a three floor open plan and the old villa became the administrative office of the new communications museum.
Exhibits at the museum include the history of communications from Sumerian tablets to the modern electronic communication devices. Early telephones, televisions, receivers and fax machines are on display. Unique art and sculpture relating to communications including telephone sheep created by Jean Luc Cornec made using telephone wires and telephones make interesting exhibits on view at the museum. Two permanent exhibits are the Titanic telegram that reached too late to save the sinking ship and Orson Welles radio play, The War of the Worlds that caused panic in the 30s in the US.
The museum also holds several unique communications related temporary exhibits to hold the interest of visitors especially children all year through. The communications museum stays open Tuesdays through Sundays.

The German Architecture Museum, opened in 1984 is a museum that focuses on building and layout technology. It is located on the banks of the River Main and forms part of the Museum Sufer.
The museum forms part of a completely gutted 18th century villa. Oswald Mathias Unger a leading Cologne based German architect planned a series of elemental platonic structures within the gutted shell giving the building a unique design. The museum has over 180,000 architectural drawings. It has 600 architectural models including classic designs by architects like Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe and Frank O’ Gehry. The museum has its own permanent exhibition of treasures and visitors can view the history of architecture from the prehistoric hut to the skyscraper. It is also an exhibition hall for temporary programs showcasing German and international exhibits relating to contemporary architecture, architectural history and urban planning.
The museum has a large library with over 25,000 architecture related reference books and magazines. Programs for children and young people are held including workshops and guided tours. The building is frequently a venue for symposia and meetings on the subject of architecture. Guided tours for visitors are available on weekends.

On the south bank of River Main is the Museum Sufer, a collection of museums in Frankfurt. One of them, the German Film Museum, founded in 1949, is the oldest film repository in West Germany. The German Film Museum is a celebration of the most original art form of the twentieth century, the movie. There are five permanent exhibits. They portray the history of film from the Camera Obscura to the work of the Lumere Brothers. Other sections showcase the language of film and sound in relation to movies. The museum allows visitors to go behind the scenes to view how movies are made. These exhibits include replica studios, background sounds and effects, special effects and artistic developments used in modern cinematography Visitors can browse the vast archives that preserve old films, cameras and a wealth of objects that relate to cinema production and technology. The museum also has a large library that is open to the public. Visitors can also take part in a car chase or fly in a magic carpet courtesy of the trick technology used in movies. The museum also holds changing exhibitions and themes related to German cinema. There is also a movie theatre that screens old and classic pictures accessible through a separate entrance.

Until 2001, this museum was known as the Frankfurt Museum of Ethnology. The building is a repository of arts, crafts and relics from indigenous cultures from all over the world.
Three adjacent villas in the museum embankment of Frankfurt form the building that houses this repository of indigenous culture and art. The museum was founded in 1904 to promote better understanding of aboriginal cultures and ways of life and teaching acceptance of differences and understanding of common traits among ethnological groups around the world. Leo Frobenius, an eminent ethnologist gave the large collection of objects belonging to the Institute of Cultural Morphology, Munich to the city of Frankfurt. The donation greatly increased the number of exhibits at the museum. The building also houses a vast library with over 40,000 books and journals on ethnography. Collections include vessels, masks, ritual objects, jewelry and other objects crafted by indigenous groups from Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas. Contemporary works of aboriginal artists from India, Oceania, Africa and Indonesia are also on view.
The museum offers guided tours, lectures, interaction with indigenous artists and workshops. In one section, children of all ages are allowed to touch and try the exhibits and learn to be creative while playing with them. The museum is open Tuesdays to Sundays.

The Museum of Applied Arts or MAK, the acronym of the German Museum für Angewandte Kunst, is a repository of arts and crafts that have a utilitarian purpose. The museum, located at Schaumainkai 17 in Frankfurt has more than 30,000 objects of European and Asian decorative arts. The museum of applied arts in Frankfurt was initially a crafts museum founded in 1877 by the Central German Handicrafts Association and was the storehouse of objects belonging to over 50 private collectors. The building suffered severe damage during the two World Wars but the collection was carefully preserved for the benefit of future generations. After the wars, the collections were housed in different institutions like a Cermelite Convent until they found a home in the Villa Metzler. The efforts of the present director Annaliese Ohm, resulted in the construction of the new building that houses the Applied Arts Museum today. The MAK building was designed by American architect Richard Meier. Exhibits at the museum include Chinese Lacquer, art deco artifacts and modern collections of applied arts and crafts. Originally the museum featured furniture, glassware and ceramics. Product design and information design related exhibits are the recent additions to the MAK collections. The facility also has an impressive library with books by leading experts in the subject of applied arts.

The Icon Museum, located in an old refectory of the Teutonic Knights who fought the Crusades, is a small but significant repository with one of the largest collections of icons in the world.
The Icon museum lies at the eastern end of the Museum Embankment in Frankfurt. The old refectory was redesigned by Cologne based architect Oswald Mathias Ungers with modern and clearly contoured rooms to display the magnificence of these religious wooden paintings. The permanent exhibits were a gift from a physician from Konigstein, Dr. Jorgen Schmidt-Voigt consisting of 800 valuable icons. The museum has expanded its collection and now has over 1000 exhibits. Another permanent donation of post Byzantine icons came from the State Museum of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin.
The collection has icons from all parts of the world where the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith flourishes. There are icons from Russia, Egypt, Syria and Ethiopia. Most of them are from the 15th to the 20th century. A treasured exhibit is a 12th century Egyptian Coptic paper icon. Besides icons the museum has other objects like crucifixes, religious robes and liturgical items. Works by famous icon artists like Emmanuel Tzanes, Michail Milutin and Yussuf Al Mussawir form part of the collection.
The Icon Museum is open from Tuesdays to Sundays and guided tours are provided for the convenience of visitors.