Museum of World Cultures — Attraction in Frankfurt

Don't miss the current exhibition on the Benin bronzes at the Weltkulturenlabor. It's a great opportunity to see some of the Benin bronzes from the collection. There is also a thorough documentation of the debate around the repatriation of these relics. Importantly, the exhibition addresses the slave trade origin of many of these bronzes which were made from melted manillas that the Kingdom of Benin obtained in exchange for captives they sold to European transatlantic slave traders. The Restitution Study Group, which is mentioned in the exhibition, has been advocating for joint ownership of the relics by the DNA descendants of the enslaved captives and Nigeria respectively the...

The exhibit was about textiles when we visited the museum. I work in a portion of North America where textiles are rarely preserved in the archaeological record. Hence my interest about which items from textile manufacture might actually be found on archaeological sites, e.g., spindle whorls (various sizes and shapes), bone pins, and bone shuttles (or textile swords). The exhibit includes these items. In addition there were a series of ca. 5-10 minute ethnographic films from the 1960s showing various aspects of basic textile production (cotton spinning, cord making, coconut fibers, etc.) and decoration in SE Asia, Micronesia, and South America. We enjoyed...

Closed on tuesday !?!!!!! Wow can you be more provincial.!!! When a museum is so badly run I am all in favour of returning ever single item back to whereever it came from and send the entire staff into unemployment. They truly derserve it.

A waste of resources and money Better close this lazy place for good. Unfriendly lazy staff as well with no compassion for people who made the effort to turn up.

On top very poor signage of the various buildings and entrances. If you walk over from Staedel very confusing. Altogether a total and utter dissapointment.

How can a city like Frankfurt have such people run a museum. I would have given zero...