Museumsuferfest

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Deep bank of the Schaumainkai
Städel on Sachsenhausen Main side
Ferris wheel on the Mainkai
International music group 2008
Dragon boat regatta
The group Mate Power 2016 on the "Feinstaub" stage, the traditional place for independent bands
Fireworks 2007

The Museumsuferfest is a cultural event that has been taking place in Frankfurt am Main on the last weekend in August every year since 1988 and is now far beyond Frankfurt. It takes its name from the Museumsufer , the name coined in the 1980s for more than 20 museums on both sides of the Main . Every year more than three million people visit this largest festival in the Rhine-Main area .

program

The Museumsuferfest has had an annually changing motto since 1988. In 2011 the main topic was Italy , Italy celebrated its 150th birthday in 2011. In 2012, New Zealand was a guest country that was also the guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair . Among other things, numerous locally known artists and performances of traditional dance groups of the Maori and residents of the Cook Islands were presented .

The festival takes place on both banks of the Main between Eisernem Steg and Holbeinsteg . On the southern side, both the Schaumainkai - the centerpiece of the so-called museum bank  - and the green areas of the Tiefkai are included. On the north bank, the stands concentrate on the green areas of the so-called “ Nice ”.

During the Museum Embankment Festival, almost all the museums in downtown Frankfurt, but especially the museums around the banks of the Main, are open well into the night. Instead of tickets, you can buy the museum button, a badge that entitles you to admission to all participating museums this weekend. In addition, there are numerous stages for music and dance performances, stalls for handicrafts, jewelry and clothing as well as open-air exhibitions by artists along the two banks of the Main. Also included are the sometimes spacious parks and gardens of the museums and - for additional, special admission tickets - the art collections of the major Frankfurt-based banks. A total of 21 stages and around 1,000 stalls are presented on each of the four-kilometer-long promenades.

Above all, the wide range of live music in a wide variety of styles and the many multicultural snack stands attract an older crowd during the day and an increasingly young audience from the wider Frankfurt area in the evening. The jazz garden in the park of the Museum of Applied Art has developed its own tradition since 1994 .

The Organ Mile has been part of the Museum Embankment Festival on Saturday since 1998 . Every hour on the hour from 6 p.m., a half-hour organ concert takes place in one of the inner city churches. After the concert, visitors have enough time to go to the next church. The result is a short city tour that always ends in the cathedral at 10 p.m. with a finale. Because of the great popularity of the organ mile, a choir mile has also been held on Sundays since 2000 .

The Caricatura Museum for Comic Art has been holding its annual "Festival of Comics" since 2008 on an open-air stage in front of the museum building on the Weckmarkt. The sharpest-tongued satirists in German-speaking countries are invited .

One of the biggest attractions is a two-day regatta of dragon boats on the Main. The Museum Embankment Festival is traditionally concluded on Sunday evening with fireworks and music.

history

The festival was created in 1988 as an advertising event for the Frankfurt museums after the city of Frankfurt had expanded or rebuilt a number of museums within a few years. Several former villas were turned into museums on the Sachsenhausen Mainufer. The festival was intended to give museums the opportunity to present themselves to a large number of citizens. Low admission prices and a casual supporting program should also attract those visitors who are otherwise not very interested in the museums.

In 1990 the Cologne artist Harry Owens, the spiritual father of the Salomé dream theater , convinced the city of Frankfurt with a new concept. “Back to the river” was his motto, where the city of Frankfurt once originated. The Museum Shore Festival became an attractive experience for the surrounding population, the Main became a stage - Carmina Burana live on floating islands, dragon boat races from Singapore, straw boats from Lake Titicaca, gondolas from Venice, outrigger boats from Bali and much more, with great active media participation. One of the highlights was the 1200th anniversary of the city of Frankfurt: Harry Owens staged the most beautiful fire spectacle. 600,000 visitors experienced a walk in the Gardens in the Sky on the banks of the Main - a terrific experience. These fireworks were the present from the Chinese twin city Guangzhou for the round Frankfurt city birthday. Since 1991, the festival has been steadily expanded, in which more and more cultural population groups, more than forty nations from all over the world, gradually participated in their cultural representation. “Art on the River”, a kilometer of young art from all over the world, an open-air studio. Artists like Yoko Ono , local artists like the sculptor Hendok, who had the faces of the city carved into a tree trunk by hundreds of visitors. In addition, regional gastronomy was given the opportunity to present its culinary specialties. Since then, this annual event has enjoyed steadily growing enthusiasm and has grown year after year into one of the largest and culturally most important festive events in Europe. In 1997 Harry Owens gave the festival to the city and devoted himself entirely to the dream theater Salome and the Academy of the Beautiful Arts, the promotion of young artists (founded in 1991). However, the event is still criticized for having strayed from its original intellectual claim, because the local museums, which still give the festival its name, have at best played a subordinate role in the public's perception for several years.

As before, most of the visitors do not come to visit a museum, but to attend the supporting program. The number of buttons sold has been around 30,000 for years, which roughly corresponds to the average number of visitors to the Frankfurt Museum Night in spring.

Participating museums (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Museumsuferfest  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Museumsuferfest mobilizes masses  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Message from hr online@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de  
  2. ↑ museumsuferfest.de ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museumsuferfest.de
  3. ↑ Program of the Festival of Comics III. ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.caricatura-museum.de
  4. ↑ The party on the Main . FAZ , August 27, 2007, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 .;