Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Frankfurt Museum Embankment Festival Live Webcam

The Museum Embankment Festival takes place every year on last weekend in August, a cultural event in Frankfurt am Main. It is named after the museum mile, the name embossed in the 1980s to more than 20 museums on both sides of the river Main. Every year, more than three million people in this largest festival in the Rhine-Main area.

This live webcam is in Frankfurt throughout the festival:

Museumsuferfest 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.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Museumsuferfest 2010 Webcam - Frankfurt Live Riverbank View

Museumsuferfest is one of the biggest cultural festivals in Germany which attracts more than 3 million visitors over a period of 3 days. It takes place yearly at the end of August on both sides of the Main Riverbank in the city centre. More than 20 museums are located there and they are open far into the night.

This webcam is live on the Riverbank throughout the 2010 festival:

Frankfurt webcam

Location information:

Frankfurt am Main commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2009 population of 672,000. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,295,000 in 2010. The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region which has a population of 5,600,000[3] and is Germany's second largest metropolitan area.

In English, this city's name translates to "Frankfurt on the Main" (pronounced like English mine or German mein). The city is located on an ancient ford on the river Main, the German word for which is "Furt". A part of early Franconia, the inhabitants were the early Franks. Thus the city's name reveals its legacy as being the "ford of the Franks".