Jewish Museum Frankfurt

Both of the Jewish Museum’s locations, Museum Judengasse and the Rothschild Palace, are of tremendous importance to the city’s Jewish history. They present two permanent exhibitions that underscore Frankfurt’s significance as a center of European Jewish life from the Middle Ages until annihilation during the Shoah. The new beginning and the contemporary presence of Jewish life in Frankfurt are the starting point for these exhibitions.

With support from the City of Frankfurt, the State of Hesse, and many dedicated foundations and sponsors, the Jewish Museum has undergone a fundamental renewal since 2015. The Museum Judengasse was reopened in March 2016 with a new permanent exhibition and awarded the Museum Prize from the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen (Savings Bank Cultural Foundation of Hesse and Thuringia). The Rothschild Palace was comprehensively refurbished, expanded with a new annex, and reopened to the public as a new museum in 2019.

With its exhibitions of artistic and cultural history, educational programs, digital offerings, and delight in experimental formats, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt seeks to be a museum without walls.

The Jewish Museum Frankfurt has been cooperating with the citizen science project since the start of Jewish Places. Most recently, the Jewish Museum put a tour of Jewish places in Frankfurt's Ostend district on the map.