Frankfurt Spectacular Art And Culture Festival Museumsuferfest 2010

This annual event is held on the last weekend in August to celebrate the many offerings that the Frankfurt museums have. This cultural event attracts in excess of three million people to the largest festival in the Rhine-Main area.

The Dragon Boat races are held all day Saturday and Sunday.

This live webcam is in Frankfurt throughout the festival:

Live Frankfurt Webcam

The Museum Embankment Festival since 1988 under an annually changing theme. 2010, the priority theme Argentina, the host country of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

The festival takes place on both banks of the Main between the Iron Bridge and Holbeinsteg instead. On the southern side of both the so-called Schaumainkai - the core of the museum shore - and the green areas of the Tiefkais included. On the north shore estates focus on the green areas of the so-called Nice.

During the Museum Discover the banks have almost all the museums of downtown Frankfurt, but above all the museums located around the Main river in order until well into the night in the open. tickets are pitching it to the museum button to buy a Ansteckplakette to this weekend admission to all participating museums entitled to. In addition, there are numerous stages for music and dance performances, stalls selling crafts, jewelry and clothing as well as open-air exhibitions of artists along both banks of the Main. It also covers the large part of the museums and parks and gardens - an additional, special admission cards - the art of the Frankfurt-based banks. Overall, introduce yourself to the each about four kilometers long promenades 21 stages and 1,000 stalls.

especially the wide range of live music of various styles and the many multi-cultural food stalls attract more older and a day before the evening is an increasingly young audience even further from the surrounding area to Frankfurt. A separate tradition since 1994, the Jazz Garden in the park of the Museum of Applied Arts developed.

Since 1998 the Museum Embankment Festival on Saturday, the organ miles. On the hour from 18 clock is one of the city a half-hour organ concert held in churches. After the concert, the visitors have enough time to go to the next church. The result is a small informal tour of the city, which is always in the cathedral clock 22 with a final end at. Because of the great popularity of the organ miles since 2000 is also a choir miles on Sunday.

One of the biggest attractions is a two-day race of dragon boats on the river Main. The Museum Embankment Festival traditionally takes place on Sunday evening by a fireworks display, accompanied by music, complete.