The Historical Museum Frankfurt is the city’s oldest museum, collecting and preserving, researching, conveying and exhibiting Frankfurt's cultural heritage. As a city museum it is a centre of knowledge and critical information, reflection and discussion on the past, present and future of Frankfurt; as a history museum it links local town issues with broader social history.
The museum is open to everyone. Its Young Museum offers opportunities tailored specifically to families and schools. The museum draws upon the wealth of experience and knowledge from Frankfurt’s people and their guests, working in a participatory and inclusive manner. It invites everyone living in the city to participate in the museum as a cultural forum and help shape it. Multiple perspectives and diversity play a central role in this context. The diversity of urban society is reflected in its collections, exhibitions and communication.
Based on current topics of debates, historical objects are scientifically researched and linked to subjective stories and points of view; this includes all relevant artistic, city-researching as well as everyday-life perspectives. Additional museum objectives include expanding and consolidating its digital strategy and its networks within the city and the region.

The Junges Museum Frankfurt  (Young Museum) shows interactive exhibitions created especially for young people aged 6 to 14. The Porzellan Museum in the Kronberger Haus in Höchst has been presenting around 1,800 Höchst faiences and porcelain since 1994, mainly from the Rococo and Neoclassical periods.

Would you like to volunteer at the Frankfurt Historical Museum? We are pleased about your interest!

Volunteers are engaged in many departments of the Historical Museum. Volunteer positions range from advising in the museum store to assist visitors and events to documentation, research or transciption in the picture archive or in one of the museum's many collections.

The placement of volunteers is coordinated by the Förderverein Historisch-Archäologische Gesellschaft Frankfurt e.V. (HAG) as a measure of museum support. The contact person is Andrea v. Bethmann, a member of the HAG board. The job offers also include voluntary work in the Archaeological Museum and in the HAG with its friends groups "Freunde & Förderer des Historischen Museums" and "Freunde des Archäologischen Museums".

Further information and our current job market can be found here.

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