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    3.0 (1 review)
    Open 8:00 am - 12:00 pm, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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    Senckenberg-Museum

    Senckenberg-Museum

    4.5(82 reviews)
    29.6 kmWestend-Süd
    €€

    We spent the day at the museum, looking at the amazing displays of dinosaurs, human evolution,…read morebirds and animals. The enormous whale hanging from the ceiling will enchant any child. Well worth visiting.

    Observations: We…read moresaw bunch of school kids with teachers/adults come on Sunday. But they were quite and well behaved. No one very excited about it like what we saw at LA or London where they are more interactive games. This place feels like and an outdated science lab with a smell of decay. What is great: Earth crust and wall of difference crystals are well described and with many information not seen elsewhere, and with extra description, you can see what stone/crystals are form at each layer. What cause fossils form in 3D vs the more bend 2D version. We didn't even learn this at Tar pit museum where tons of fossils are still being dig today. Excellent! Museum platform style chairs like art museum. Since AC is almost not existed there, those chairs let's you sit down and read each description leisurely. Issues: We went to LA and London's natural history museum, this is not quite as big and as imaginative. First many exhibits came from NY, second the way Frankfurt present is very textbook and boring glass boxes, while in LA, you see each animals in their fake habitat. London's displays is a more artistic approach. Museum only label 50% of its exhibits with English. Description of exhibits are not very well thought out. Dinosaurs are not to scale but they won't tell you what the scale so you think why 50ton animal is same as the 5ton one. For exhibits with English, description is much less. Theme of each room and wall has not much thoughts puts to it. Price: 10€ for adults and 5€ for kids.

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    Siegfried's mechanisches Musikkabinett

    Siegfried's mechanisches Musikkabinett

    4.3(9 reviews)
    36.7 km

    Ok that was weird. Interesting, sensory triggering, tinny, historical, kitschy, bizarre, intricate,…read moredelicate, amazing, and odd. I didn't want to go. I'm glad that I did, and would not repeat. Im conflicted. I mean, if you're here and need to kill an hour, it's a unique way to do that. Not something to go out of your way to experience, but I haven't seen anything like it. Machines that play real violins!

    I'm all about gadgets and new technology but this collection of ancient mechanical contraptions…read moretriggered me worse than a shark swimming through chum-filled waters. Our visit here was without question one of the highlights of my to Europe. The museum is inside a 15th century building that is so interesting to look at. You can't just walk through the museum on your own. Because of how fragile some of these machines must be a tour guide goes with you and explains the story behind each device before they operate them for your enjoyment. The minimum group size is four, but admission is so cheap I think it would be worth it to pay for missing people if you have less than four. The machine in the first room completely fascinated me. It was called a Weber Maesto Orchestrion and I've never seen anything like it. The orchestrion plays music that is meant to sound like a band is playing it. The multiple instruments harmonize wonderfully together and played a catchy tune. I liked it so much I ended up buying a CD of orchestrion songs from the gift store. When you start thinking about how this intricate machine was built over ninety years ago when technology was so primitive it's just mind blowing. I did some research when I got home and learned that less than ten of these exist in the world and one was sold in a Sotheby's auction for close to a million dollars! This alone was worth the price of admission for me. Another highlight was a machine that played violin music. There were multiple violins wrapped around a column but the catch was that each violin only had one string. The mechanism that spun around the violins would then hit each string as needed to play a melody. They had replicas of wind-up mechanical bird boxes that had a little bird that would jump around and sing when triggered. Some of these are actually for sale and if they would have been $200 or less I would have thrown my credit card down so fast your head would spin. Starting at $600 is too rich for my blood. We saw several other machines on our tour and the hour flew by so quickly. If you're anywhere near this museum it is a "must do" as far as I'm concerned.

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    Stadtmuseum - museums - Updated May 2026

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