Museum Embankment Walk

The Eiserner Steg is defined by its hundred and seventy meter span of riveted steel trusses, which cut a distinct, dark silhouette across the Main River. First constructed in eighteen sixty-eight, this pedestrian bridge connects the…

The Museum Angewandte Kunst appears as a series of bright, white, L-shaped cubes that wrap around a historic villa. Designed by American architect Richard Meier and opened in nineteen eighty-five, the structure integrates the neoclassicist…

The Museum of World Cultures occupies three adjacent nineteenth-century villas along the Schaumainkai, a stretch of the riverbank known as the Museumsufer. Unlike many institutions that began as royal cabinets of curiosities, this museum…

The German Film Museum sits along the Museumsufer, the stretch of museums lining the south bank of the River Main. You can identify the building by its exterior, which preserves the historical shell of a nineteen-ten Wilhelminian-style…

The Deutsches Architekturmuseum, or DAM, is recognizable by the striking contrast between its historic facade and the radical transformation hidden inside. Located along the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, the building began as a…

The Städel Museum is recognizable by the prominent neo-Renaissance facade that rises along the south bank of the Main River, part of Frankfurt's famous Museum Embankment. Established in eighteen fifteen by the banker and spice merchant…

The Liebieghaus is a late nineteenth-century villa built in a palatial, historicist style, recognizable by its distinct castle-like architecture and the surrounding garden on the banks of the River Main. It was originally constructed in…