The Museum Giersch is an art gallery on the Main River in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in the Museumsufer area.

Museum Giersch
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Established2000
LocationSchaumainkai 83, Museumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
TypeArt museum
CollectionsArt and cultural history of the Rhine-Main area
Public transit access
  • U1 U2 U3 U8 Schweizer Platz
  • 15, 16 Otto-Hahn-Platz
  • 16, 17, 21 Stresemannallee / Gartenstraße
Websitewww.mggu.de

The museum opened in 2000.[1] It hosts a changing series of exhibitions displaying the art and cultural history of the Rhine-Main area, with the aim of promoting the region's cultural identity.[2] The Museum Giersch displays works on loan from public and private collections. The range of exhibits covers all areas of painting, photography, sculpture and graphic art, as well as architecture and applied art.[2]

The gallery is situated in a neoclassical villa on the Schaumainkai, built around 1910 for the Philipp Holzmann company and now one of the few surviving riverside villas in Sachsenhausen. The renovation of the villa and its conversion into an exhibition venue were carried out by the Giersch Foundation (Stiftung Giersch), which was founded in 1994 and is the museum's sole operator.[3]

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Museum Giersch is part of the Museumsufer.

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Museums of the Museumsufer, Frankfurt am Main
South Bank
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Hindemith Kabinett im Kuhhirtenturm (de)
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Icon Museum (de) (Museum of Orthodox sacred Art)
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Portikus (Exhibition hall for contemporary art)
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Museum Angewandte Kunst (Applied Arts)
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Museum der Weltkulturen (Ethnological Museum)
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Deutsches Filmmuseum (de) (German Film Museum)
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German Architecture Museum
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Museum für Kommunikation
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Städel (Fine Arts Museum)
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Liebieghaus (Classical sculpture collection)
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Museum Giersch (Art and culture of Rhine-Main)
North Bank
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Jewish Museum Frankfurt
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Frankfurt Archaeological Museum (de)
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Historical Museum, Frankfurt
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Caricatura Museum Frankfurt
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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Art exhibition venue)
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Museum für Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Museum)
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Frankfurter Judengasse Museum (Preserved foundations from the Ghetto)
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Deutsches Romantik-Museum / Goethe House
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Naturmuseum Senckenberg (Westend, Frankfurt)
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Eintracht Frankfurt Museum (Waldstadion)
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German Leather Museum (Offenbach)
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Klingspor Museum (Offenbach)


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References edit

  1. ^ "Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität". Das Museumsportal (in German). Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b Museums Archived 18 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine City of Frankfurt am Main. (in English)
  3. ^ "Museum Giersch". Stiftung Giersch (in German). Retrieved 14 December 2022.

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