Tourist attractions Offenbach am Main

The German Leather Museum houses a unique collection of leather, parchment and animal skins, and examines the use of leather in different areas, such as travel. Housed in the same building, the Shoe Museum demonstrates the evolution of fashion from..

Approximately five thousand animals, of six hundred species, live in this zoo which is renowned for its success in reproduction. A large aviary is home to many birds most of which have very colourful plumage. Fish, reptiles, penguins and insects are ..

This museum houses an exceptional collection of Old Masters, with works by Hans Holbein the Elder, Grünewald, Altdorfer, Dürer, Van Eyck, Fra Angelico, Mantegna and Botticelli. Later periods are represented by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Rubens, ..

Installed in what remains of a Gothic cloister, the cathedral museum , in addition to its treasury consisting of pieces of gold plate and sumptuous clothes, attracts one's attention for the tombstone of a young Merovingian girl buried in the cathe..

The election of the emperors (from 1356), followed by their coronation (from 1562) took place in this church, which earned it the name of cathedral. It was built between the 13 and 15C on the site of a Carolingian construction. The west tower was o..

The modern art museum attracts attention as much for its architecture as for its collections. Designed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein, the building with its imposing dimensions evokes a vessel rather than a cultural institution. The collectio..

This spacious building designed by the architect Richard Meier contains furniture from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, but also items of Baroque furniture and Art Nouveau. The glassware collection , the Islamic section (earthenware, carpets) ..

This museum retraces the various inventions which marked the beginnings of the history of cinema and photography (Edison’s Kinetoscope, 1899). The Cinema Production/History of the Cinema section presents information on silent and talking movies. A sm..

Reconstructed identically after 1945, Goethe's paternal house reflects the taste for beautiful things and the love for Italy which the father conveyed to his son. An exhibition retraces the life of the Goethe family in Frankfurt in the 18C. Here too ..

This park is home to a very large variety of ornamental plants and flowers (notably roses), Alpine plants and tree species. In the greenhouses bloom precious tropical and sub-tropical flora. The palmarium, built in 1869, is the oldest construction ..

Founded in 1821, the Naturmuseum Senckenberg is renowned for its palaeontology section. Areas of interest include the dinosaur room , with skeletons and fossils of giant animals from the Secondary Era; the famous Jurassic excavations from the regi..

From the top of this 120 m tower you will have a complete panorama over the city, the Main, the huge Stadtwald forest and the wooded massif of the Taunus.

This disparate block of 3 middle class houses from the Middle Ages overlooks the Römerberg. The Zum Römer house includes 52 statues of emperors in the Imperial Room . The Römerberg is limited to the south by St Nicholas' church (13C), to the s..

Between 1848 and 1849 the Germany National Assembly, elected before the March revolution, sat in this circular building. The building is home to an exhibition devoted to the history of the German democratic movement.

This Gothic 15C church reveals its relation with a Romanesque basilisk. Note the octagonal towers and the attractive sculptures of Master Engelbert's portal . This portal has been located inside since the addition of two aisles to the old building. ..

Particularly popular with young visitors, this museum retraces the history of communications from clay tablets to the telegraph and telephone, to computers and MP3 players. Exhibits include radios as large as washing machines and a tape-recorder the ..

Liebieg House Municipal Gallery is devoted to ancient sculpture . Beautiful examples of sculptures belonging to various civilizations, from ancient Egypt to the classical epoch. Small statuary and Roman copies of great Greek sculptures illustrat..

This is the exhibitions centre overlooked by the very attractive tower built by the architect Helmut Jahn. 265 m high. Car fair, book fair, etc.: all events which annually attract millions of visitors. The faultless organisation and the area of the c..