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Icon Museum
Dr Jörgen Schmidt-Voigt's foundation
Current information:
Due to urgent construction measures, the Icon Museum must close until 31 July 2025.
We thank you for your understanding.
Public Guided Tours
We regularly offer public guided tours of the highlights of the Icon Museum. The guided tours are in German and included in the regular museum admission (6 euros, reduced admission 4 euros). Admission is free for children, young people and apprentices under the age of 18.
Icon Evenings September – December 2025
We illuminate special icons from our collection from a theological as well as cultural studies and art historical perspective. A warm invitation to get closer to the stories, meanings and messages of icons in our time in this way.
The icon evenings are held in German, once a month, from 6.30 – 7.30 pm.
Speaker:
Dr. Konstanze Runge, Icon Museum
Rev. David Schnell, Evangelische Stadtkirchenarbeit Museumsufer
Dr. Stefan Scholz, Katholische Akademie Rabanus Maurus
Dr. Harmjan Dam, Private lecturer in the field of practical theology and religious education
17 September 2025
Deesis
Christ as judge?
15 October 2025
Oktoberfest
Perpetual calendar
12 November 2025
Maryam al-Maslub
A saint from Bethlehem
10 December 2025
Engaged – adored – transformed
Mary as a sign of God’s mercy
After more than a year of alterations and renovations, the Icon Museum in Frankfurt am Main is reopening with an entirely new exhibition space and concept. Under the direction of Prof. Matthias Wagner K and the curatorial leadership of Dr. Konstanze Runge, who has held the position since September 2019, the museum places the relationship between people and icons at the centre of focus in its completely renewed exhibition.
Following extensive conservation and restoration measures, the 130 selected icons and religious objects reveal an entirely fresh magnificence. At the same time, the rather typical traces of use were carefully conserved as a sign of the relationship between people and their icons. The icons are presented mostly without glass and at eye level. It is mainly the valuable and metal icons as well as small objects that are protected by glass and showcases.
In a city with more than 14 Orthodox Christian churches and characterised by rich cultural diversity, the Icon Museum wishes not only to be a place for the preservation of cultural heritage, but also to be a space of encounter to which all are invited and which contributes to a successful coexistence of peoples from different cultural, religious and non-religious backgrounds.
As of now, the Icon Museum in Frankfurt has a free smartphone app that allows visitors to get to know the contents of the exhibition digitally in German, English and Russian. The heart of the app is the multimedia guide. Here, users can listen to audio contributions and read texts that refer to different contents and icons.
Newly opened Ethiopian collection at the Icon Museum
The Icon Museum in Frankfurt opened its newly designed Ethiopian collection.
The exhibition on Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity is notable for the diversity of the Aethiopica on display and the uniqueness of its presentation. 500 years of Christian Ethiopian art and cultural history can be discovered here in exemplary fashion. In addition to sixteen large- and small-format icons, visitors can discover a wide variety of neck, hand and processional crosses in a wide range of forms and materials, as well as eight parchment manuscripts and several objects used in the liturgy, including rattles, water jugs and ear spoons.
Press Conference Reopening of the Icon Museum (in German)
The digital press conference from 4 March, 2021 with the speakers:
Dr. Ina Hartwig
Head of the Cultural Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main
Prof. Matthias Wagner K
Director
Icon Museum Frankfurt
Museum Angewandte Kunst
Dr. Konstanze Runge
Head Curator and Custodian
Icon Museum Frankfurt
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Die Höllenfahrt Christi (Anastasis) / Christ’s Descent into Hell (Anastasis)
Demetrios Phoskalis, Griechenland (Ionische Inseln), um 1710
Eitempera auf Holz
Demetrios Phoskalis, Greece (Ionian Islands), around 1710
Egg tempera on wood
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Spätantike und Byzantinische Kunst
2021
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Reisetriptychon Christus Pantokrator, Hl. Nikolaus, Hl. Georg / Travel Triptych Christ Pantocrator, St. Nicholas, St. George
Pawel P. Owtschinnikow, Russland (Moskau), 1890–1895
Silber, Niello, emailliert
Private Leihgabe
Pavel P. Ovtchinnikov, Russia (Moscow), 1890–1895
Silver, niello, enamelled
Private loan
2021
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