Information and registration

Monday to Friday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Tel. ++49 (0)69-212-35154
Fax ++49 (0)69-212-42078
Email: besucherservice.historisches-museum(at)stadt-frankfurt.de

or use our inquiry form for guided tours.

 

Since 2012, after the demolition of the Technical Town Hall, 35 new buildings have sprung up on the cleared area the size of a soccer field. They all stand on historical ground plans: where Frankfurt's old town had been before the Second World War. 15 of the houses were reconstructed as historical old town houses. At the start in the museum you will learn from historical and current models how complicated and controversial the path to the New Old Town was and which compromises were made. On site, you will explore what lies behind the façades, what all this cost, and you can see for yourself if this form of reconstruction makes the history of the city more tangible.
Duration: approx. 90 minutes

Book your city tour here.

From the beginnings under Charlemagne to the electoral rules established in the Golden Bull of Emperor Charles IV regarding the rituals and ceremonies of the coronation and the festivities following the coronation, the tour follows in the footsteps of the electors and sheds light on the Erzämter (the highest court appointments) who carried them out.

Book your city tour here.

Not only did trade and exchanging of money take place between exhibition stands and patrician houses during trade fairs, this ritual also offered people the chance to experience new things from around the world and indulge in the spectacle. People from all walks of life came together from all over Europe, from beggars and prostitutes to middle-class citizens, patricians and merchants.

Book your city tour here.

Vormärz (pre-March) and bourgeois revolution: Between St. Paul’s Church and the reconstructed Thurn und Taxis Palais, not only the role of groups and people – particularly the participation of Frankfurters, the work of the National Assembly and the reasons for its failure can be traced; the places where barricades or shootings took place or the literary Frankfurt and the salon of Clotilde Koch-Gontard are also part of the tour. The tour through the city can be extended by a trip to the Frankfurt Main Cemetery (U5) and the graves of those killed in action in 1848.

Book your city tour here.

Where was the mobilisation announced? And which buildings turned into military hospitals? Places are visited where wool and precious metals were collected and where the revolutionary soldiers accommodated themselves at the end of the war. But also in the artistic work of Max Beckmann we show the traces of the war.

Book your city tour here.