April 20, 2020 TnH Global

Frankfurt comes to you

Explore unique online exhibits from the famous museums in the city.

Since you can’t get to theatres, museums, galleries or opera houses during these difficult days of confinement, instead they’ll come to you.

Over the years, Frankfurt has gained widespread renown as one of Germany’s leading museum locations due to its unique MuseumEmbankment. Ancient sculptures, famous masterpieces, modern artworks and historical remnants of bygone times – You’ll find them all in the metropolis on the River Main.

Here is a list of the Top 5 virtual museum tours and exhibits you simply cannot miss!

Städel Museum, Frankfurt

The multimedia Digitorials (digital online publications) collection, developed by the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, offers each of the major exhibitions of the museum since 2015, including Titian and the Renaissance, Matisse/Bonnard, Making Van Gogh, each richly documented to bring the images to life and reveal their exciting content.

The most successful? According to Beaux Arts, it’s “Monet and the Birth of Impressionism.” The museum also offers its excellent digital collection divided by themes such as “Climate Change,” “Europe,” and “Arcadia.”

Schirn Museum

The Schirn museum has digitally opened its current exhibition, called “Fantastic Women” (scheduled from February 13 to May 24).It highlights the works of 34 women artists and their contributions to Surrealism including Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Dorothea Tanning and Dora Maar. There is also a video tour, podcasts as “Art for the Ears” and knowledge-rich “Schirn Shortcuts”, in which works are served as three-minute snacks (schirn.de/besuch/).

Senckenberg Nature Museum Frankfurt

The Senckenberg Nature Museum in Frankfurt is one of the largest natural history museums in Germany and shows the variety of life today and the evolution of creatures and transformation of our earth over millions of years. The museum has unique online exhibits. Learn and explore about the evolution of flight and the fascinating discovery of diversity.

Filmmuseum

The Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt dedicated to the medium of film, showcasing its history and present, its aesthetics and influence in a multitude of ways through exhibitions and screenings in its own cinema. You can view some of the unique film screenings in the comfort of your home with the European Film Gateway- which gives users access to hundreds of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives.

German museum of books and writing

The task of the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library is to collect, exhibit and scientifically process testimonies to the history of books, writing and media. Founded in Leipzig in 1884 as the Deutsches Buchgewerbemuseum (German Book Trade Museum), it is the world’s oldest museum of book culture. The museum has collated many virtual exhibitions that can be viewed from anywhere in the world. These exhibits include 100 years of the first world war and exploring 5000 years of media history.