MISHPOCHA

2026-04-17 – 2026-09-27

The Art of Collaboration

Follow the Function?

2025-12-18 – 2026-11-29

Kabinettpräsentation

Ostend - View into a Jewish quarter

2026-04-26 – 2026-11-29

Ausstellung im Hochbunker an der Friedberger Anlage

From the pit to the golden apple

2026-06-06 @ 15:00

The tour from the Museum Judengasse to the "Golden Apple" follows the former Judengasse, the center of Jewish life in Frankfurt from the 15th to the 18th century. We search for traces of it in the city. The focus is on finds from the 1987 excavations from the depot of the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt: crockery, oven tiles, dice and a comb from cellars and wells bear witness to the life of the former inhabitants. In the vaulted cellar of the "Golden Apple", built in 1809 by Joseph Moses Rindskopf, the...

Animated film workshop: Memory, origin, identity

2026-06-07 @ 11:00

In this animated film workshop, participants are invited to explore their memories, identity and family history in a creative way. Using the means of animated film, small moving narratives are created from personal images, photos or digital traces. The focus is on questions about feelings, places of remembrance and personal stories. The workshop opens up a protected space for storytelling, experimentation and creation - between memory and fantasy,...

Anne Frank Day

2026-06-11 @ 16:00

In preparation for Anne Frank Day, young people from the Philipp-Reis-Schule in Friedrichsdorf took an in-depth look at Anne Frank and the history of her family. In particular, they explored the question that Anne Frank wrote in her diary 82 years ago: "Have my parents forgotten that they were once young?" Under the guidance of poetry slammer Dalibor Marković, the young people worked intensively with Anne's diary and developed their own forms of writing and...

Goldener Apfel - a forgotten vaulted cellar in Börnestraße

2026-06-11 @ 16:30

In 1809, Joseph Moses Rindskopf acquired a plot of land at the northern end of Judengasse. This had previously been devastated by French revolutionary troops during the war against the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt. Rindskopf built a prestigious stone house on the rubble of five burnt-down houses. One of the destroyed houses was called the Goldener Apfel. Its stones were used to build the vaulted cellar, in which today a keystone with the inscription "IMR 1809" commemorates the...

Anne Frank and her family from Frankfurt

2026-06-11 @ 18:00

Which family did the diarist Anne Frank come from? What links her and her ancestors to Frankfurt am Main? How did the various family members spend their childhood, their everyday lives and what were their hobbies? Curator Dr. Franziska Krah addresses these and other questions in this after-work tour through the last room of the permanent exhibition. // The tour is free of charge and lasts 60 minutes. The number of participants is limited. Registration via our...

Can pop still save us? On music, community and polarization

2026-06-13 @ 18:00

"We Are Family", as Sister Sledge once said. Pop music has always created communities, brought people together who felt excluded from society and created a new home, a new family for them. Hip-hop brought together the black community; disco, house and techno offered safe spaces for gender emancipation; punk rock was open to everyone who felt alienated, to proletarian children, to riot grrls, to Jews. But punk rock...

Flow: Drawing in the open air

2026-06-14 @ 11:00

In this open-air drawing course near the banks of the River Main, you will leave the challenges of the working week behind you and discover your creativity and the diversity of artistic expression. You will sharpen your eye for detail and learn the techniques of perspective, light and shadow, hatching and composition as well as a feeling of lightness, a "flow", in drawing. The materials required are included in the price. Cards are available from our online store...

The art of union

2026-06-14 @ 14:00

There is a special place in the east of Frankfurt: the Union Areal, where a topography of hope has been created with works of art in recent years. The topography developed by Ardi Goldman together with Ingeborg Bellmann has several aspects: It comprises a parcours of resistance that has to do with 100 and 18 people. 100 bearers of hope, who are commemorated with name plaques on the pavement - women and men who had the courage to help and to stand up for their...

Light building and city palace - the architecture of the Jewish Museum

2026-06-14 @ 14:00

The Jewish Museum combines old and new, a historic town house from the 19th century with a modern building, in the middle of which light falls. In 2022, it was awarded the most important architecture prize, the "Great Nike" of the Association of German Architects (BDA). How does the perception of the exterior differ from that of the interior? And what gestures and materials characterize the architecture inside? Participation is...

Queer-feminist leadership

2026-06-14 @ 15:00

Michal Schwartze and Irina Ginsburg go in search of Jewish-queer perspectives. What were and are the ideas of gender and sexuality within the Jewish community? What constructions of norms and counter-histories do the objects tell? What limits do we come up against in our joint search for alternative debates? Dates: Sun, May 17, 11:00 a.m., at Museum Judengasse. Sun, June 14, 3 p.m., at the Jewish Museum. Participation is included in the museum admission...

Anti-Semitism and the attack on democracy

2026-06-15 @ 19:00

Anti-Semitism is not just a "rumor about the Jews" (Adorno), but a frontal attack on democratic coexistence. Historically and in the present day, it is clear that the construction of an 'internal enemy' serves to deflect social conflicts - and at the same time undermines fundamental principles such as equality, participation and solidarity, and ultimately democratic coexistence. The panel examines the effects of anti-Semitism that endanger democracy and asks which...

Sounds, tones and noises

2026-06-17 @ 15:00

What does a shofar sound like? When do the ornaments of the Torah rustle? How do prayers sound? When is breaking glass part of a ritual? If we listen carefully, we can experience Jewish history and the present in a close and sensual way. This inclusive guided tour is aimed at people who want to get to know the permanent exhibition with their ears.

What does Mischpoche mean?

2026-06-18 @ 18:00

As part of our temporary exhibition "MISHPOCHA. The Art of Collaboration", two photographers meet at the Jewish Museum for whom Mischpoche - i.e. family - has a special professional significance. Jan Zappner is part of the exhibition with parts of his artistic project "Mischpoche. Being Jewish however" are part of the exhibition. He has even added pictures and statements by our artistic director Mike D. to the exhibition. For his Mischpoche project, Zappner worked with 29 Jewish men and women from four different...

Yoga in the museum

2026-06-18 @ 18:30

Every Thursday outside of the Hessian school vacations, the library of the Jewish Museum is the place to be for physical relaxation. In cooperation with Makkabi Frankfurt, you can spend 75 minutes on the mats - which you should ideally bring with you - in this bright and attractive room. Taster sessions or even several yoga evenings can be booked at makkabi-frankfurt.de/abteilung/yoga. No membership is required.

A tiger comes to tea

2026-06-21 @ 14:00

Sophie and her mother have just sat down when the doorbell rings. A big tiger is standing in front of it and because he is very hungry, they invite him in for tea. We read this wonderfully amusing story by the famous children's author and illustrator Judith Kerr in our cozy library. Admission is free, but seating is limited. We therefore ask you to book a free ticket at: juedischesmuseum.de/tickets ; remaining tickets may be available at the museum box office.

A man like her

2026-06-21 @ 19:00

The conductor Hans Wilhelm Steinberg was Kapellmeister of the Frankfurt Opera in the 1920s and shaped its program with premieres and first performances by Arnold Schönberg. After he was dismissed as a Jew in 1933, he took over the musical direction of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden. From 1936, he helped to establish the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, emigrated to the USA shortly afterwards and continued his career there with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The music theater evening at the Museum...

Between the worlds

2026-06-22 @ 19:00

Since 2017, the Gesellschaft der Freunde und Förderer des Jüdischen Museums and the Freunde des Ensemble Modern e. V. have been organizing chamber music concerts with works by Jewish composers. Many of them were persecuted and murdered during the Nazi era, such as Erwin Schulhoff and Viktor Ullmann. The performance of works by living artists such as Talia Amar and Dana Barak also builds a bridge to contemporary reflections on Jewish identity and the role of the Jews in society.

Rummikub & Co.

2026-06-25 @ 18:00

Whether old or young: playing brings people together. As part of our wellbeing offers, we are inviting all interested parties to a games evening in our library for the second time. In addition to tried-and-tested classic games such as "Mensch ärgere Dich nicht!" and "Rummikub" or modern hits such as "Flügelschlag", the evening will also feature lesser-known games with Jewish stories as well as games devised by Jewish game designers. In a relaxed atmosphere, the...

Family tour at the Jewish Museum: Mishpocha - What is family for you?

2026-06-27 @ 11:00

Discover, marvel and experience history together. Our hands-on guided tour for families through the permanent exhibition at Museum Judengasse is guaranteed not to be boring! The tours are specially designed for families with children and combine fun, games and stories. Participation is free of charge. Please register in advance via our online ticket store.

The festival hall in November 1938

2026-06-29 @ 18:00

During the November pogroms of 1938, the Secret State Police, SA and SS deported more than 3,000 Jews from Frankfurt to the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps. Most of the men were forcibly taken to the Festhalle before the transports, where they were subjected to humiliation and severe abuse. The guided tour provides information about the excesses of violence at the historical site; the documentary "Julius Meyer - November 1938" by director Heiko Arendt will also be shown. Mon, June 29,...

MISHPOCHA. The Art of Collaboration

2026-07-02 @ 18:00

MISCHPOCHE - Yiddish for family - is rethought in this interactive exhibition. Under the artistic direction of Mike D (from the Beastie Boys), the Jewish Museum team has developed an interdisciplinary exhibition and happening project together with Atelier Markgraph and the IMA Clique, which is divided into four themed rooms and begins in the forecourt. Guided tours of the exhibition will take place on Thursdays at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m., on...

Exhibition Highlights

2026-07-05 @ 14:00

Frankfurt's Jewish history from 1800 to the present day is multi-faceted and dynamic. The exhibition calls attention to the achievements of Emancipation and the transition to the modern age, while at the same time revealing the close connection between the Enlightenment and modernization and the hostility towards Jews that ultimately led to the Shoah. The tour gives an overview of the themes of the permanent exhibition and tells the story of the museum as it presents the exhibition's key...

Do you know the House of Life?

2026-07-05 @ 14:00

More than 2,000 gravestones can still be found in the Jewish cemetery on Battonnstraße: one of the most important Jewish cemeteries in Europe and one of the oldest monuments to Frankfurt's cultural history. Why it is still visited by Jews from all over the world is just as much a topic of the tour as the burial customs and the enigmatic pictures on the gravestones. The meeting point is the entrance to the Judengasse Museum. Participation is included in the museum admission...