What does the museum do?

Founded in 1878, the Historical Museum Frankfurt is the oldest museum in the city. Together with the Young Museum Frankfurt and the Porcelain Museum Frankfurt, it forms a museum family. It collects, preserves, researches, communicates and exhibits Frankfurt's cultural heritage. As a city museum, it is a place of knowledge and critical information, reflection and discussion about the history, present and future of Frankfurt; as a history museum, it combines city themes with the general history of society.

The Historical Museum  at the Römerberg is like a small city quarter. It includes several buildings around a public museum square. The Saalhof, with its five historic buildings, showcases 800 years of Frankfurt's architectural history. The exhibition building, which opened in 2017, is a modern museum architecture that is formally oriented towards Frankfurt's old town.