About the museum
The guiding principle of the museum
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.
Our museum team fosters a cooperative and respectful working environment. Together with the colleagues of the Young Museum and the Porcelain Museum, we form a team comprised of diverse expert skills that complement each other and allow for differing views. The museum team is active in international museum networks. We are an open-minded and learning institution: we are curious, work on an interdisciplinary basis, and confront the challenges of a constantly changing urban society.
All permanent and freelance employees, volunteers, city lab participants and others who represent the Historical Museum Frankfurt follow a self-imposed Code of Conduct.
The museum family
The Junges Museum Frankfurt (Young Museum) shows interactive exhibitions created especially for young people aged 6 to 14. The Porzellan Museum Frankfurt 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.
Volunteer
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.
The team
Information and further inquiries
Monday to Friday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.T +49 69 212-35154
besucherservice[at]historisches-museum-frankfurt.de
Directorate
Dr. Doreen MöldersDirector
+49 69 212-33371
doreen.moelders[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Susanne Gesser
Deputy Director
+49 69 212-35633
susanne.gesser[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Heidrun Czarnecki
Director's Office
+49 69 212-37773
heidrun.czarnecki[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Karin Berrío
Head of Communications
+49 69 212-37776
karin.berrio[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Noah Frederik Nätscher
Scientific Volunteer
Communications
+49 69 212-35961
noah.naetscher[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Management Team
Dr. Doreen Mölders (Director)Susanne Gesser (Deputy Director/Head of Education and Participation/Head of the Young Museum)
Prof. Dr. Nina Gorgus (Head of Collection and Research)
Dr. Dorothee Linnemann (Head of Documentation and Restoration)
Karl Stigler (Head of Administration and Operations)
Education and Participation Department
Susanne GesserDeputy Director, Head of Education and Participation, Head of Young Museum
+49 69 212-35633
susanne.gesser[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Lisa Brackmann
Education and Exhibitions Young Museum
+49 69 212-34630
lisa.brackmann[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Martina Dehlinger
Education and Exhibitions Young Museum
+49 69 212-48785
martina.dehlinger[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Laura Hollingshaus
Education and Outreach Young Museum
+49 69 212-32936
laura.hollingshaus[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Dr. Angela Jannelli
Library of Generations, CityLab
+49 69 212-33814
angela.jannelli[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Konstantin Lannert
Bolongaro Museum Höchst
+49 69 212-47775
konstantin.lannert[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Carolina Maddè
Exhibition and Event Management
+49 69 212-31672
carolina.madde[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
veranstaltungen[at]historisches-museum-frankfurt.de
Tanja Martinho Alves
Ksenia Ivanova
Visitor Service
+49 69 212-35154 (Mon – Fri: 10.00 – 16.00)
besucherservice[at]historisches-museum-frankfurt.de
Dr. Franziska Mucha
Digital Museum Practice
+49 69 212-42069
franziska.mucha[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Juliane Phieler
Education
+49 69 212-34611
juliane.phieler[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Elisa Schifferens
Scientific Volunteer
Education and Participation
+49 69 212-33832
e.m.schifferens[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Collection and Research Department
Prof. Dr. Nina GorgusHead of Collection and Research
Collections everyday culture and household II (from 1880), toys, childhood and youth culture
+49 69 212-46550
nina.gorgus[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Dr. Victoria Asschenfeldt
Collections fashion and textiles, jewellery, furnisher, historical musical instruments
+49 69 212-35487
v.asschenfeldt[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Christina Bach
Collections of numismatics, militaria, technology and industry, models
(Interim sculptures)
+49 69 212-34499
christina.bach[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Dr. Dorothee Linnemann
Collections graphic arts, photography, media and communication
(Interim paintings collection)
+49 69 212-36443
dorothee.linnemann[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Sarah Roller
Scientific Volunteer
Collection and research
+49 69 212-30698
sarah.roller[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Patricia Stahl
Head of Porcelain Museum in Kronberger House
Collections everyday culture and household I (until 1880), crafts and trades
+49 69 212-45474
patricia.stahl[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Dr. Felix Schürmann
Research assistant (colonial history)
+49 69 212-31070
felix.schuermann[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Documentation and Restoration Department
Dr. Dorothee LinnemannInterim Head of Documentation and Restoration
+49 69 212-36443
dorothee.linnemann[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Sonja Brandt
Restauration paper, graphics, leather, parchment
+49 69 212-34405
sonja.brandt[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Anja Damaschke
Restauration paintings
+49 69 212-34740
anja.damaschke[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Beate Dannhorn
Registrar, picture archive
+49 69 212-30596
beate.dannhorn[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Manuel Dold
Library
+49 69 212-36181
manuel.dold[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Dominik Gransow
IT Administration
+49 69 212-34467
dominik.gransow[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Verena Grande
Restauration paper and graphics
+49 69 212-37774
verena.grande[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Heike Heilmann
Restoration of paper and graphics, archive and library materials
+49 69 212-44195
heike.heilmann[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Sabine Lorenz
Restoration of arts and crafts, technical cultural assets
+49 69 212-36881
sabine.lorenz[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Christoph Wenzel
Restoration furniture and wood
+49 69 212-35984
christoph.wenzel[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Administration and Operations Department
Karl StiglerHead of Administration and Operations
+49 69 212-44463
karl.stigler[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Fabiano Catanzaro
Building services and museum craftsmen's service
+49 69 212-71376
+49 175 7398701
fabiano.catanzaro[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Sascha Erbes
Ordering, accounting
+49 69 212-34274
sascha.erbes[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Peter Fischer
Building services and museum craftsmen's service
+49 69 212-71376
+49 160 4786928
peter.fischer[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Christof Gold
Building services and museum craftsmen's service
+49 69 212-31358
+49 175 9305153
christof.gold[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Willi Gubanek
Head of building services and museum craftsmen's service
+49 69 212-34586
+49 160 7187591
willi.gubanek[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Irma Hoog-Kramar
Ordering, accounting
+49 69 212-47752
irma.hoog[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Dirk Oetzel
Museum guard
Krasimira Peneva
Reception and cash-desk
Sandra Täuber
Supervision and cash-desk
+49 69 212-35599
sandra.taeuber[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Anja Tesch
Ordering, accounting
+49 69 212-33370
anja.tesch[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Freunde & Förderer
Reinhard FröhlichBoard of Directors F&F
+49 69 212-47190
reinhard.froehlich[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
Gerhard Schleiden
Deputy Board Member F&F, Office
+49 69 12-47190
gerhard.schleiden[at]stadt-frankfurt.de
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