German Architecture Museum

The German Architecture Museum (German: Deutsches Architekturmuseum) (DAM) is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, Germany. Housed in an 18th-century building, the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as a set of "elemental Platonic buildings within elemental Platonic buildings".[2] It houses a permanent exhibition entitled "From Ancient Huts to Skyscrapers" which displays the history of architectural development in Germany.

Deutsches Architekturmuseum
LocationMuseumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
Key holdingsErich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Archigram, Frank O. Gehry
Collection size
  • 180,000 architectural drawings
  • 600 models
Visitors110,712 (2018)[1]
ArchitectOswald Mathias Ungers (interior redesign)
Public transit access
Websitedam-online.de
Interior of the museum

The museum organises several temporary exhibitions every year, as well as conferences, symposia and lectures. It has a collection of ca. 180,000 architectural drawings and 600 models, including works by modern and contemporary classics like Erich Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, Archigram and Frank O. Gehry. It also includes a reference library with approximately 25,000 books and magazines.[3]

Awards

The DAM grants several awards:

Museumsufer

German Architecture Museum is part of the Museumsufer.

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Notable Museums of the Museumsufer, Frankfurt am Main
South Bank
1
Hindemith Kabinett im Kuhhirtenturm (de)
2
Icon Museum (de) (Museum of Orthodox sacred Art)
3
Portikus (Exhibition hall for contemporary art)
4
Museum Angewandte Kunst (Applied Arts)
5
Museum der Weltkulturen (Ethnological Museum)
6
Deutsches Filmmuseum (de) (German Film Museum)
7
German Architecture Museum
8
Museum für Kommunikation
9
Städel (Fine Arts Museum)
10
Liebieghaus (Classical sculpture collection)
11
Museum Giersch (Art and culture of Rhine-Main)
North Bank
12
Jewish Museum Frankfurt
13
Frankfurt Archaeological Museum (de)
14
Historical Museum, Frankfurt
15
Caricatura Museum Frankfurt
16
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Art exhibition venue)
17
Museum für Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Museum)
18
Frankfurter Judengasse Museum (Preserved foundations from the Ghetto)
19
Deutsches Romantik-Museum / Goethe House
External
20
Naturmuseum Senckenberg (Westend, Frankfurt)
21
Eintracht Frankfurt Museum (Waldstadion)
22
German Leather Museum (Offenbach)
23
Klingspor Museum (Offenbach)

See also

References
  1. "Besucherzahlen der Frankfurter Museen 2018". Stadtkind Frankfurt - Reflexionen aus dem urbanen Leben (in German). 20 November 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. Glancey, Jonathan: Obituary: OM Ungers in The Guardian, 18 October 2007
  3. www.frankfurt.de Archived 18 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 17 April 2011
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