Over eighty media stations
Games and experiments that explain policy without jargon.
The Money Museum is attached to the head office of the Deutsche Bundesbank in the north of the city, and it costs nothing. Frankfurt is a banking town before it is anything else, home to the European Central Bank, the German central bank and the stock exchange, and this is the one place that explains that industry to an ordinary visitor in plain language instead of leaving you to photograph the towers from the pavement. The exhibition is built around four questions rather than a timeline: how notes and coins are physically made, what book money is when it has no material form at all, how monetary policy works and what a central bank actually does, and what role money plays in a connected world. More than eighty media stations with games and hands-on experiments carry the material, which makes it digestible for someone with no economics behind them. The site sits well out of the centre in Dornbusch and is reached by U-Bahn plus a five hundred metre walk or a short bus ride. It opens daily from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon except on Saturdays, an oddity that catches people out. Texts are German with English, and the whole museum is step-free. An hour or two is enough, and it is an unusually good rainy-day option if you are travelling with teenagers.
Games and experiments that explain policy without jargon.
A whole section on printing, minting and security features.
Wilhelm-Epstein-Strasse 14, 60431 Frankfurt am Main
The ECB tower in the Ostend is a working office closed to individual visitors and has no permanent exhibition. The Money Museum is the only practical alternative if you want to understand Frankfurt's banking side from the inside.
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