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E Museum für P Liebieghaus
Angewandte Kunst Schaumainkai 71. Tel (069) 605 098
Schaumainkai 17. Tel (069) 21 23 12 86. 200. Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun (to
Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun (to 8pm 9pm Thu). & ∑ liebieghaus.de
Wed). & ∑ museumangewandte Built for the Czech industri alist
kunst.de Baron Heinrich Liebieg in 1896,
The Museum of Applied Arts today this building houses a
was opened in 1983, in a museum of sculpture, with
building designed by Richard works ranging from antiquity
Meier. He used a Biedermeier through to Mannerism, Baroque
house, the Villa Metzler, and and Rococo. The museum also
added a modern wing. The has superb examples of ancient
museum has a collection of Egyptian and Far Eastern art, as
some 30,000 objects of applied well as works from the Middle
art from Europe and Asia. Ages and the Renaissance. Its
Nearby, in a villa in highlights are the works of Neo­
Schaumainkai, is the small Classical masters such as Antonio
Hollein’s modern design, housing the but fascinating Museum der Canova, Bertel Thorwaldsen and
Museum für Moderne Kunst Weltkulturen (ethnography Johann Heinrich Dannecker.
museum), which is worth a visit.
and includes works by Roy
Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and E Deutsches
Claes Oldenburg. Temporary Architekturmuseum
exhibitions focus on multimedia Schaumainkai 43. Tel (069) 21 23 88
shows, incorporating photo­ 44. Open 11am–6pm Tue, Thu–Sun,
graphy and video art. 11am–8pm Wed. & ∑ dam-
online.de
P Ikonen-Museum One of the most interesting
Brückenstraße 3–7. Tel (069) 21 23 62 museums in the Schaumainkai
62. Open 11am–6pm Tue–Sun. & complex is undoubtedly the
The museum of icons holds museum of architecture, in an
an extensive collection of avant­garde building designed
Russian­Orthodox icons from by Oswald Mathias Ungers. The
the 16th–19th centuries. It is museum has a permanent
housed in the Deutschordens­ collection as well as tempor ary
haus, originally built in 1709– exhibitions concentrating
15 by Maximilian von Welsch mainly on developments in
for the Order of the Teutonic 20th­century architecture. The Liebieghaus, home of the museum
Knights. The present building Nearby, at No 41 of sculpture
is a faithful copy of the earlier Schaumainkai, is the Deutsches
Baroque three­wing structure, Filmmuseum, which holds E Naturmuseum
which was destroyed during documents and objects relating Senckenberg
World War II. Inside is the to the art of film making and Senckenberganlage 25. Tel (069) 754
14th­century Teutonic Church the development of film 20. Open 9am–5pm Mon, Tue, Thu
of St Mary, with original altars technology. The museum has its & Fri, 9am–8pm Wed, 9am–6pm
and 14th­ to 17th­century own cinema, which shows old Sat & Sun. & ∑ senckenberg.de
wall paintings. and often long­forgotten films. This museum, situated
near the university, is one
of the best natural history
museums in Germany.
Besides a vast collection
of plants and animals,
including dinosaur skeletons,
it contains human and animal
mummies from Egypt.
Environs
Hanau, 30 km (19 miles)
east of Frankfurt, is the birth­
place of the Grimm brothers.
An exhibition devoted to their
lives and work is held at the
local history museum, in
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum, in Schaumainkai Philippsruhe, a Baroque palace.

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