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Das Foto zeigt ein Mädchen, das im Rententurm durch ein Fernrohr sieht.
Interaktive Elemente im Rententurm, CC-BY-SA 4.0: HMF, Foto: Stefanie Kösling

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We will announce new exhibitions, upcoming projects and collection activities here. Be inspired and plan ahead! Find out about the archive on this page, previous CityLab projects can also be found here.

Restitution as an Opportunity

Hans Thoma's Seasons Cycle from the Villa Ullmann
13 July to 10 September 2023

Barbara Klemm – Frankfurt Images

9 November 2023 to 1 April 2024

Exhibition archive

In the exhibition archive you will find an overview of all special exhibitions since 2007. You will also find an overview in our annual publication AURA under Downloads by clicking here.

2021 – 2022

CityLab City-Views

A subjective cartography of Frankfurt
22.10.2022 – 10.04.2023

Everything is Disappearing!

Carl Theodor Reiffenstein (1820-1893), Visual Chronicler of Old Frankfurt
12.11.2022 – 12.3.2023

Frankfurt and Nazism

Two exhibitions
9.12.2021 bis 11.9.2022

Nice Neat Picture World – Learning to Look Away?

2.6.2021 - 11.9.2022
RAY-Partnerproject

Prehn's Paradise of Paintings

20.5.2021 – 16.1.2022

CityLab Gardening Now!

28.4.2021 – 10.10.2021

Environment, Climate & YOU

30.3.2021 – 24.10.2021, Young Museum

Urban Green – Frankfurt Gardenlust

25.3.2021 – 10.10.2021

2019-2020

I Spy with My Little Eye

Racism, Resistance and Empowerment
01.10.2020 – 28.3.2021

Werk*Stoff*Textil. Vom Faden zum Gewebe

7.6.2020 – 21.2.2021, Junges Museum Frankfurt

Moving Clothes. A fashionable CityLab

5.5.2020 – 16.8.2020

Clothing in Motion – Women's Fashions after 1850

19.3.2020 – 19.7.2020,
extended until 24.1.2021

Hardly an ordinary life. Stories of work, migration and family

28.11.2019 – 5.4.2020

Schopenhauer's Frankfurt

30.10.2019 – 10.10.2021, Biographical Cabinet

Masterpieces – On the Craft of Painting

12.9.2019 – 19.1.2020

How do the people live?

15.5.2019 – 13.10.2019

Forgetting – Why We Don't Remember Everything

7.3.2019 – 14.7.2019

2017-2018

21 – Memories of Growing Up. Video installation by Mats Staub

22.11.2018 – 14.4.2019

Young in Frankfurt

22.11.2018 – 14.4.2019

High Fashion in Lace – Frankfurt Designer Toni Schiesser

8.11.2018 – 15.9.2019

Votes for Women – The 100th Anniversary of Women's Suffrage in Germany

30.8.2018 – 20.1.2019

Breakdowns, disasters, apocalypses. Drawings by Kurt Wölbing 1967-1983

8.6.2018 – 30.9.2018

Legalized Robbery. The Treasury and the Plundering of the Jews in Hesse 1933-1945

17.5.2018 – 14.10.2018

bought. collected. looted? Everyday Objects and their Nazi Past

17.5.2018 – 14.10.2018

Of Burghers and Bankers – Paintings of the Gogel and Hauck Families of Frankfurt

22.11.2017 – 13.5.2018

The Making of HMF – A new museum for Frankfurt

7.10.2017 – 15.7.2018

The Whispers of the Saalhof

7.10.2017 – 15.7.2018

Thomas Ganter – Man with a Plaid Blanket and Other Perspectives on Life without a Home

21.6.2017 – 8.10.2017

2015-2016

Rudi's Pictures – The Seitz Theater Collection

17.11.2016 – 24.4.2017

Silk robes and leather jackets – The fashion studio Erika Segel-Reinhardt

4.6.2015 – 11.10.2015, 13th collector

A quarter and a whole – CityLab on the move in Gallus

24.4.2015 – 6.9.2015

Karsten Bott – Equal Multiples

16.4.2015 – 13.9.2015

Gisèle Freund – 1 May 1932

13.1.2015 – 3.5.2015, 13th collector

2013-2014

Captured Images. Science and Propaganda in the First Wold War

11.9.2014 – 15.5.2015

park in progress. CityLab on the move in the Wallanlagen

18.5.2014 – 21.9.2014

The Holzhausen. Frankfurt's oldest family

10.4.2014 – 27.7.2014

The New Civic City. The Frankfurt of the architects Burnitz

31.10.2013 – 16.2.2014

Dragutin Trumbetaš: Gastarbeiter in Frankfurt

3.5.2013 – 15.9.2013

G-Town. Ginnheim Living Room

24.3.2013 – 4.7.2013, CityLab on the move

2011-2012

My Grandparents. A long-term project by Mats Staub

12.9.2012 – 24.2.2014

Early Plastics – The Collection of Cultural Scientist Eva Stille

18.8.2012 – 31.3.2013, 13th collector

My stadium pool – An exhibition with swimming pool

9.5.2012 – 16.9.2012, CityLab on the move

The Third World in World War II – A Forgotten Chapter of History

27.2.2012 – 7.4.2013

Treuner's Frankfurt – The Old Town Model of the Historical Museum and its Context

17.5.2011 – 30.9.2011

OSTEND // OSTANFANG. A district in transition

30.4.2011 – 25.6.2011, Stadtlabor unterwegs

2009 – 2010

Abisag Tüllmann (1935–1996). Pictoral reportages and theater photography

24.11.2010 – 27.3.2011

When (not only) architects can dream... New project ideas for Frankfurt

9.9.2010 – 3.10.2010

Strangers in Sight. Photo albums from the Second World War

15.4.2010 – 29.8.2010

Frankfurt's Democratic Modernity and Leopold Sonnemann. Jew – Publisher – Politician – Patron of the Arts

29.10.2009 – 28.2.2010

Peter Struwwel – Heinrich Hoffmann. A Life in Frankfurt, 1809–1894

13.6.2009 – 21.9.2009

Liselotte Strelow (1908–1981) – Retrospective

22.1.2009 – 13.4.2009

until 2008

The '68ers – Short summer, long effect

1.5.2008 – 31.8.2008

Frankfurt and the North Pole. Discoverers and explorer in the eternal ice, 1861 – 1931

22.12.2007 – 9.3.2008

Change of View. Frankfurt women around 1800

23.8.2007 – 25.11.2007

From Strangers to Frankfurters – Immigration and Living Together

permanent exhibition 2004 – 2011