Christmas season in Frankfurt and the surrounding area
From traditional markets to creative holiday spots, Frankfurt and the surrounding area offer festive highlights for every visitor.
AI makes it possible: Young Goethe as a fashion model
There are hardly any known portraits of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from his younger years. And yet he is currently presenting new fashion in photos at the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt. Jogging pants by Karl Lagerfeld are also on display, even though the fashion designer was known for his conviction that “Anyone who wears jogging pants has lost control of their life.” Goethe and Lagerfeld – created by artificial intelligence.
Kronberg Academy – Classical music as art and a common language for people
This year’s Kronberg Festival, which kicks off the Kronberg Academy’s 2025/2026 concert season on September 23, aims to generate “good vibrations.” For 32 years, the town in the Taunus region has been home to one of the world’s leading training centers for chamber music – financed almost exclusively by private, civic engagement.
Milestone for Frankfurt’s internationality and cosmopolitanism
The European Central Bank building has become a Frankfurt landmark. Photos usually only show the spectacular twin office towers. However, the building complex also includes the equally spectacular former wholesale market hall. The hall is itself a landmark of “New Frankfurt,” which will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2025.
One weekend, one city, the biggest club in the world – Frankfurt and the World Club Dome
The World Club Dome 2025 impressively demonstrates how culture, internationality and economic power interact in Frankfurt.
Experience the stock exchange up close
It is the place that combines the past and present of Frankfurt as a financial centre in a unique way: the last active stock exchange trading room in Europe in the ‘Neue Börse’ on Börsenplatz. Last year, more than 40,000 visitors experienced the stock exchange up close from the gallery and gathered inspiration to take a closer look at shares and other securities for their own wealth creation.
Media history(s) retold
The “Museum für Kommunikation” offers an interactive journey from the millennia-old cuneiform tablet to visionary data glasses. Without a fixed tour, you can surf through the exhibition like on the World Wide Web and experience communication in all its diversity with ground-breaking inventions, curious events and unusual fates.
Winter lights in the Palmengarten: imaginatively illuminated, mysteriously dark
The winter lights are back in Frankfurt’s Palmengarten. Vibrant colours contrast with mysterious darkness and invite young and old to stroll through the colourfully illuminated plant kingdom and send their imagination on a journey until 12 January 2025. The winter lights are a little break from everyday life.
Rembrandt’s Amsterdam at the Städel: “Paintings of national pride and self-confidence”
The exhibition ‘Rembrandt’s Amsterdam: Golden Times?’ at the Städel in Frankfurt takes a look at a financial and trading centre during the boom phase of the 17th century. From the perspective of art, a brilliant panorama of the Dutch metropolis emerges that tells of wealth and poverty, fortune and ruin, power and powerlessness.
Frankfurt Bookfair 2024
The 76th Frankfurter Buchmesse (16-20 October 2024) is dedicated to current topics in the international publishing industry as well as the socio-political issues of our time. At the same time, it is further expanding its programme for encounters between readers and authors – this year with a special focus on the growing desire for literature among the younger generation of readers.
