On the Move! Frankfurt and Mobility

Divided into three chapters, the exhibition addresses different
facets of mobility and their interrelationship to Frankfurt. It
focuses on people and their multidimensional interactions with
urban society and urban architecture, which involve the
various forms of mobility.

Beginning with the postal service around 1439, an urban
historical thread traces the development of means of
transportation and points of destinations in Frankfurt to the
present day. It focuses mainly on the many changes and
transformations, which still play a role in today’s world. A brief
expedition into the limits and challenges of urban development
in the form of a transport archaeology lays the foundation for
an associative-contemporary exploration of mobility in a series
of topic areas.

These themed areas invite visitors to link their personal experiences
with societal and social aspects, and to adopt different
points of view. What values, ideas, needs – and above all,
what emotions are associated with mobility?
In a third thread, artistic approaches create aesthetic connections
to urban mobility and add performative aspects. Finally,
we highlight the history and technological development of the
secret star of the exhibition – the bicycle. The exhibition opens
with a very rare Draisine (dandy horse) from the museum’s
collection.

The exhibition “On the Move” delves into current issues of our
times. Frankfurt is unique in that it has almost as many jobs
as inhabitants. This shapes to a great extent questions of work,
housing, mobility and urban space. What challenges must
urban society face today – and what possible visions are linked
to them? What kind of mobility culture do we want to live in?
Is Frankfurt on the path to becoming a sustainable, safe, healthy
and vibrant city that meets a wide variety of mobility needs?