Meier's architecture
Pure white wings around villa and garden — light as the first exhibit.
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Design, architecture and fashion people first — they leave happy. The general visitor should favour the Städel or Film Museum on the same bank, unless a major fashion show is on — then this is the occasion.
Outside and garden, yes — circling it gives you the essence of Meier. The interior with its interlocking white volumes needs the ticket, which architecture lovers consider earned by itself.
An hour for the main display at ease, another if a strong thematic show is on. Café and garden close the embankment naturally.
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The Museum Angewandte Kunst is Frankfurt's design museum: how humans have designed the tools of living across eras — furniture, ceramics, fashion, books, products — from Renaissance cabinets to modernist chairs and industrial-design icons. The building is a landmark itself: a white 1985 masterwork by the American architect Richard Meier, purely geometric wings wrapping an old villa and garden, with light displayed as an exhibit of its own. Architecture lovers come for the building before the contents. The display renews itself through thematic shows — on fashion, Asian design, eras of style — so check what is on before visiting. It stands directly beside the Film Museum on the embankment, making the pairing easy.
Pure white wings around villa and garden — light as the first exhibit.
Renaissance cabinets to the twentieth century's iconic chairs.
Periodic fashion exhibitions among Germany's strongest.
Schaumainkai 17, 60594 Frankfurt