Insight Guides Pocket Germany by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Germany
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2018-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Frankfurt’s spectacular cluster of skyscrapers

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The Museum Mile

The majority of Frankfurt’s galleries and museums are grouped in the ‘museum mile’ stretching along the Main embankment opposite the city centre. There are institutions devoted to film, architecture, postal services, ethnography, antique sculpture and the applied arts, but most visitors head first to the Städel Museum (www.staedelmuseum.de; Tue–Wed, Sat–Sun 10am–6pm, Thu–Fri 10am–9pm). This is one of the country’s great picture galleries, with more than 600 masterpieces of European painting from the 14th century onwards. The portrait Goethe in the Campagna by Tischbein is one of the gallery’s evergreens; Goethe was born in Frankfurt, and many make the pilgrimage to his birthplace, the sensitively restored Goethe-Haus (www.goethehaus-frankfurt.de; daily 10am–6pm, Sun until 5.30pm). Another place of memory is the Jüdisches Museum (Jewish Museum; www.juedischesmuseum.de; Tue 10am–8pm, Wed–Sun 10am–6pm), whose displays evoke the long history of Frankfurt’s Jewish community, which before the Holocaust was one of Germany’s largest.

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