The Museum of World Cultures

1 January 2016 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, House of the Month, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  6 minutes

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The Museum of World Cultures (German: Museum der Weltkulturen) is an ethnological museum on Museumsufer in Frankfurt. Until 2001 it was called the Museum of Ethnology (Museum für Völkerkunde).   read more…

The PalaisQuartier in Frankfurt

1 May 2014 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, House of the Month Reading Time:  7 minutes

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The Palais Quartier is a building complex in the Innenstadt district of Frankfurt. It was built from 2004 to 2011. The complex consists of four buildings: MyZeil, a shopping mall, the Palais Thurn und Taxis, a reconstruction of a palace from 1793, the Nextower, a 136-metre high rise office building and Jumeirah Frankfurt, a 99-metre high rise hotel building.   read more…

Theme Week Frankfurt – St. Paul’s Church

1 May 2013 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  5 minutes

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St Paul’s Church (German: Paulskirche) in Frankfurt am Main is a church with important political symbolism in Germany. It was started as a Lutheran church in 1789 – coincidentally the same year as the French Revolution. By 1849, it had become the seat of the Frankfurt Parliament, the first publicly and freely-elected German legislative body.   read more…

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