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Dr Jörgen Schmidt-Voigt's foundation

Icon Museum

Brückenstraße 3–7
60594 Frankfurt

Telephone: +49 69 212 36262
Mail: projekte.ikonenmuseum@stadt-frankfurt.de

Admission:
6 EUR, reduced 4 EUR
Combined ticket for the Museum Angewandte Kunst and the Icon Museum: 12 EUR, reduced 6 EUR

Opening hours:
Wed 12 noon–8 pm, Thu and Fri 12 noon–5 pm, Sat and Sun 10 am–5 pm

Pop up exhibition in the Icon MuseumIcons on the Move Treasures from the Bode-Museum, Berlin

13 May – 30 August 2026

Exhibition visual.
Graphic: Jasmin Kress

The first temporary exhibition at the Icon Museum since its reopening honours the museum’s nearly 30-year collaboration with the Bode-Museum in Berlin (Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art). Set amidst the permanent exhibition, it presents selected icons from the post-Byzantine era from the Bode-Museum’s collection, which have been on permanent loan to the Icon Museum in Frankfurt am Main since 1999. The exquisitely crafted, predominantly small-format icons of the Mother of God, the life and passion of Jesus Christ, and selected saints – which were intended for private worship – enter into dialogue with the permanently exhibited icons in the exhibition space, many of which originate from ecclesiastical contexts.

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  • No registration required. Included in the admission price.
    The tour will be held in German.

Icon Evenings September – December 2026

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 6–7 pm. Included in the admission price, no prior registration required.

Speaker:
Dr Konstanze Runge, Icon Museum
Rev. David Schnell, Evangelische Stadtkirchenarbeit Museumsufer
Dr Stefan Scholz, Katholische Akademie Rabanus Maurus
Pastor Dr. Harmjan Dam

23 September 2026
Franzikus’ Cross by Damiano
A 13th-Century Syrian Icon

21 October 2026
Confusingly Similar
Two Theodores on one Icon

18 November 2026
Heavenly Bodyguards
The Archangels Gabriel and Michael

9 December 2026
The Lady of the Tower
Saint Barbara

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.

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.

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Press Release

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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